Technology and the Return of Christ

Today I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle about the U.S. Air Force's development of antimatter weaponry and fuel sources. If you would like to read the article you can find it here.

This stuff is right out of the best sci-fi movies and TV shows. Space travel at unthinkable speeds using a fuel source that is so effecient that you could travel across the solar system on just a handful. Weapons that reduce its prey to vapor instantaneously. It got me thinking about technology; particularly the advances we have witnessed in the past 50 years. Remember Captain James T. Kirk's communicator from the Star Trek series? Do you own a cell phone? Same idea (minus the teleportation, of course). The truth is that the fantasy of yesterday is the product of today. Voice activated computers, 5000 song libraries contained in a portable device the size of a calculator, Mars colinization, wireless homes, levitating super trains, fingerprint activated doorlocks for homes, genetic engineering, public space travel...on and on the list goes and where it stops only our wildest dreams can tell. We are cruising down the super-highway of technology towards a seemingly infinite future.

Yet for those of us who follow Jesus, we know there is a moment that is coming (probably sooner than later) that will interrupt our history. A day known only to our Heavenly Father. Namely, Jesus' return to the earth and subsequent reign on the earth for 1000 years, before this world and heaven are disgarded for a new one. Whatever your views on the End Times and the Great Tribulation, I have to wonder what life will be like during that 1000 years. Clearly the Bible tells us that not all people will be a part of the Kingdom during that reign, nor will all of those unbelieving people who were around before the Tribulation be killed off during it. So will technology stop being used and developed? I think it would be ludicrous to assume that upon Christ's return we would, as a civilization, revert back to 1st century A.D. living conditions. So here are some questions (some of which are a little humorous) that come to mind about all of this:

Will technology continue to develop on the scale it is currently today, an if so how far will it go?
Will space travel and exploration still be going on? If Jesus returns while people are on Mars what will happen to them? What about the MIR space station?
Will God put a stop to the use of technology?
Will Jesus have an email address and cell phone number for those who are not in their supernatural eternal bodies (assuming we can communicate with him from anywhere)?
What about modern medicine?
Will Microsoft cease to exist?

I realize these are not questions needful for our lives here on earth or the advancement of the Kingdom of God. Nevertheless, they are fun to think about and if anything may give us a hint as to how close we may actually be to Christ's return. After all; if there is a limit to how far God will let man develop (and we are getting pretty far down that road), how much further will He let us go?
What do you think?