What a decade from 2001 to 2011. Consider the technology that we have come to take for granted, and so much of this has come about in the last ten years.

It's an unprecedented pace of change, and really shows few signs of slowing down. Covering all of it has been Tech Now, as we mark our tenth anniversary this year.

From iPhones to the iPod, from Google to Twitter, Facebook, Digital cameras, flat screen TV's, Kindles and YouTube, they have all arrived in the last decade.

"This morning I did not have to walk out and get a newspaper, I did it with a few clicks on my computer and in real time. Ten years ago that sort of stuff did not happen," said John Reid of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance. "I think we are accelerating this change. This is a fundamental shift in how we work and play and get medical care and everything, and we need to realize that this shift is well underway."

We have easily integrated technology into our daily lives; it seems the devices have always been here.

Don Campbell, chief technology officer at IBM Ottawa, said it has been a whirlwind of change in the past decade.

As a devoted techie who carries two cell phones and laptop, Campbell feels change will continue because of human curiosity; about what's new and shiny and our desire for information.

"Everything is at our fingertips all the time and that is changing how we do things and that delivery of information is changing things," he said. "We just expect, for example, to be able use map-based information; a map, what is that? I don't even remember how to fold a map."

The decade began with the bursting of the tech bubble, soaring stock prices for firms like Nortel and JDS started their long, hard fall.

Thousands of people lost their jobs in the tech wreck and Gary Davis ran an Ottawa organization from 2004 to 2007 that tried to help tech workers find new jobs.

He said government and industry still don't understand the cycles of tech and how to match jobs with people who want them.

"It amazes me to see what happens," he said. "I live in Ottawa and a lot of my neighbours work in tech, and they are still living in a state of concern and worry and not knowing if they might lose their job at any second."

Rick Doyon co-founded an Ottawa PR agency that dealt only with tech firms. He worked with many of the early success stories then sold out his interest and became an author and screenwriter.

"The last ten years have been tough for tech," he said. "Tough to find money, and tech needs money to move ahead. And we have to realize that the Internet drives everything and it's really only about 17 years old and so it has been the impetus for everything."

"The government needs to pay more attention to tech," he added. "I saw the bailouts for GM and Chrysler and I wondered ‘where is the help for Nortel?'"

In December of 2000, CTV launched the program called "High Tech TV". A year later like many tech firms we had to change to survive, and Tech Now was born.