TID: PX/Win v3.0pr5 PX96-0466M2
MSGID: 1:135/392 9455f2f5
TZUTC: -0400
  CP wrote --

> I wonder if he had a true vision of the future & he saw the computers & what
was behind them ("Big Brother") but didn't have the words or concept for
"computer" in his time or language
 
  The message was right, just the wrong medium.
  I doubt anyone could have predicted the internet in 1948 any more than
the average person could have predicted radio in the 1890s.
  I'm sure someone must have thought "Wouldn't it be nice if...." but no
ways or means to create the item.
  I've seen tv shows from the '60s predicting life in 2000 and they had
somewhat primitive ideas of an internet, mostly for just shopping and news, and
picture phones (face time or whatever).
   I visited a friend in NY state in the mid '80s who was really into
computers.  He sold them.
   He had a complete room in his apartment just for them, he had a couple. 
He bragged how he could print out an entire newspaper to read.  I thought
that was interesting but why not just buy a paper and not spend all that time
on line, cost of paper, etc.
   The idea of instant information was there, but no way do it and just
read things on line as today.
   A few years ago I was talking to a local reporter and asked if the local
birdcage liner would ever be on line.  He said no.  Today online
subscriptions are  more than the print edition, and they even dropped the
printed
Monday edition. 

> providing quick & easy entertainment to the masses ("them asses"

  LOL!
 
> my interpretation of "hoi polloi")

  I am pleased with your not using "the hoi polloi" which would be The the
people.  :)  

> & guess who elects our government (not "leaders" as it was at one time
composed exclusively of those who were solid leaders in tight(military)
situations, putting their men's lives ahead of their own when required. Even
the military only has "commanders" no

  I think it was around the time of The Great War this thinking started.
  Probably by the brass who didn't want their uniforms muddied in the
trenches.

> I spell beautifully, but I type lousily

  My typing is somewhat lousy as well.
  I always proof read whatever I write since I tend to think faster than I
type and leave out a word here and there.
  Plus if my index fingers stray from the key letters I get all sorts of
odd spellings.
  
> I'm the same with my own written notes -- this is why I love my phone -- I
can make a legible note at any time 

   As you wrote somewhere in the message, using your own short hand, I do
the same.  And did that long before text speak was invented.
   My first phone with text was a pain to use.
   You had to use the phone key pad (ABC, DEF, etc) and if you wanted a B
you had to press ABC twice, a D was once, F was three times...
   Took me forever to write just a short line of text.
   My current phone has intuitive spelling which I really like.
   I'm still a "hunt and peck" with my index finger on the phone, never
getting the hang of using my thumbs and zipping along.

> Yup, Google was always with a geographical bias for results -- which helps
most people 
  
   What I like is when using Norton VPN and Google giving me an address who
knows where it might be at the time.  :)

> A teacher millennia, ago lamented the use of paper & pencil because children
no longer learned stuff by heart (completely memorizing a half book or two was
standard)

  Twas the same when writing was invented and one no longer had a poet or
someone whose job it was to remember everything and pass that on to the next
generation.
   The main problem before then was if that person died suddenly all the
information was lost.  At least when on paper it was available, unless the
paper was lost.
   I had a cousin who while in school (teens and 1920s) had to learn to
recite various things of different lengths.  Maybe a short poem or long story. 
In her 80s she could still recite something she learned then.

> ingredients, & prices (I did the math for taxes in my head, if asked for a
total -- saved me walking back to the register, ringing it up as a dummy sale

  When I sold cars in the mid 1970s there was a salesman who would had a
long string of numbers in his head, then do the same on the adding machine.  I
asked why he did that and he replied to make sure the adding machine was
correct.  :)

> I'm not lazy -- I'm efficient

  LOL
  Joe
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Fidonet Since 1991 www.doccyber.org bbs.docsplace.org (1:135/392)
SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 10/0 1 15/0 18/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81
SEEN-BY: 106/201 116/116 120/302 340 616 123/0 10 25 115 126 131 160
SEEN-BY: 123/180 200 755 124/5016 129/305 330 331 135/300 366 371
SEEN-BY: 135/379 382 383 384 385 388 390 391 392 153/757 7715 154/10
SEEN-BY: 154/30 40 50 700 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 109 650 700 720 810
SEEN-BY: 218/840 850 860 870 880 220/70 90 221/0 6 222/2 226/17 18
SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 201 229/110 111 112 206 307 317 400 424 426
SEEN-BY: 229/428 452 470 664 700 240/1120 5832 250/1 261/1466 266/512
SEEN-BY: 267/800 275/1000 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 299/6 300/4
SEEN-BY: 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234 342/200 396/45 423/120
SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/280 712/848 1321 770/1 100 330 340 772/210 220
SEEN-BY: 772/230 2320/105 2452/250 3634/0 12 15 24 27 50 5020/1042
PATH: 135/392 300 3634/12 154/10 280/464 770/1 218/840 700 229/426