Posted on 01/01/2006 3:49:04 AM PST by infocats
IN the beginning, personal computers were for loners. You sat at the desk and stared at the screen. To involve anyone else in what you were doing, you had to pull up an extra chair at that same desk, or carry a printout or floppy disk containing your work to a friend's or a workmate's machine.
Working with computers became interesting, as opposed to merely useful, when it became a social activity. E-mail was the first big step, and the Internet the second. Now, with the BlackBerry and Skype and municipal WiFi and the omnipresent cellphone, it is tempting to think that technology has given us too many ways to stay in touch.
But if the history of communications shows anything, it is that the demand for connectedness is limitless. (And round-the-clock communication makes the occasional disconnected interlude, whether a vacation or a mere two-hour airline flight, all the more precious.) So the most promising tech developments are often those that offer yet another way to satisfy the primeval human urge for contact. [go to article for complete story]
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Let's all join in welcoming the NYT to the year 2000.
Sorry... I don't do NYT.
Maybe you should throw in a free gift card from the Kinko's in Abilene.
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