JoePepsiCo
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Young and you want to change the world and then old and reflecting on the changes.
Big heavy chrome, fins and always, always, more power: the broadsword. It gave way to rapiers: ever smaller, lighter, quicker, reflecting the needs of the urban wilderness, formerly the center of society, abandoned to university leadership dedicated to the abrogation of basic human nature. Who do you call?
You look at your phone, no matter where you are, and remember Ma Bell and the landline. They came to the house and told you where the best place to install the phone was, usually a very inconvenient spot, so there was always a long phone cord snaking through the house.
You look up what you need to know on that phone which formerly required an entire, dedicated, independently powered room to house and millions of data punch cards and miles of paper tape and āknowing someoneā to even have access to it.
Ask a young person, "Whereās the Public Library."
Whatās that?
Big heavy chrome, fins and always, always, more power: the broadsword. It gave way to rapiers: ever smaller, lighter, quicker, reflecting the needs of the urban wilderness, formerly the center of society, abandoned to university leadership dedicated to the abrogation of basic human nature. Who do you call?
You look at your phone, no matter where you are, and remember Ma Bell and the landline. They came to the house and told you where the best place to install the phone was, usually a very inconvenient spot, so there was always a long phone cord snaking through the house.
You look up what you need to know on that phone which formerly required an entire, dedicated, independently powered room to house and millions of data punch cards and miles of paper tape and āknowing someoneā to even have access to it.
Ask a young person, "Whereās the Public Library."
Whatās that?