August 2002

Fined Again On The Information Highway
By JJ Oakley

Yes it is true.  No matter what the world thinks I am a certified Hobo of the highway.  Remembering back to the days when I waited patiently for the G-L and H-J edition of  the Encyclopedia Britannica to arrive.  Oh and how wonderful when the 1962 year in review would finally come.  My, have we come a lone way now?

I would look up Davy Crockett and get all of a four paragraph short biography, and if real lucky . . . a picture.   Now, I can find oh maybe, 399 sites on the Internet with volumes of information on 'Ol Davy', along with every portrait or likeness of his image ever done.

Yes, I used to get a ticket for traveling too slow and found myself actually getting impatient.  Oh forgotten are the days of going to the index and flipping pages to find an article.  No, now I am impatient, and need to not only access information at my brains capacity to think of a topic.  I need it yesterday.

This will never do so I get a modem, then DSL, and start looking into the heavens for satellites.  Do I see a pattern here?  It may be that I now need a speeding ticket.  One wonders if the more we get, the more we want.

Still . . . there may be something to just walking down to the store for an RC and a Moon Pie.