1/23/2004

Woke up, put on clothes, went to work.

I was thinking today about the predictions that we made about the future when we were kids. In school, teachers suggested that some day, we'd all be reading newspapers on computers and not on paper. As a media fan, I didn't like this idea. I still think we'll always want to be able to pick up and take along a newspaper ON paper. Reading things on a screen is painful after a while. But when you see people on the bus Monday morning reading the news on their Palm Pilots, think about how that might have been just a futuristic vision back in the late '70s. It happens slowly, but all of a sudden, you can look around and realize that we're partially into the future that we predicted. It's just, we don't have those flying cars.

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