Jan 112006
It’s been a while since I last posted…in fact, it was last year since my most recent outpouring of humor, wit and banter. But anyway, it’s 2006 now. In a mere 8 months, I’ll reach a quarter-century on my odometer. (Don’t worry, I’m *not* going down the “Oh noes! I’m getting old!!” path.) Rather, I’ve been reflecting on how much life has changed in just the past 20-ish years I can actually remember. It seems strange to think that as recently as the late 80s and early 90s:
- I lived in a house with (one) rotary telephone;
- Home computers were little more than isolated boxes for playing games and typing rudimentary documents;
- Contacting other people took actual effort;
- The cost of gathering information was higher by orders of magnitude.
I get the feeling that explaining such a reality in another 25 or 50 years will be as incomprehensible to future generations as explaining the reality without electicity or cars was to mine.