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     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   
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