…the first touch-tone telephone was introduced. When I get frustrated with this modern world, I can usually make myself smile by imagining what text messaging would be like using a rotary dial.
It’s obvious that as I grow older I become more easily amused.
From New Scientist, this article about what we’re likely to see from the Obama administration. Also, this video, called “Blueprint for Change: Technology,” which appears to be an edited version of the Candidates@Google event held November 14, 2007.
The latter is long, and less about science and technology than I would like, but these election maps created by Mark Newman won’t take you much time to digest. I found them very heartening — the great divide is not so great when looked at in these ways.
I think this will be my last post on the election — see, I found this patch that helps ease the cravings for presidential/political news…it will probably work until at least mid-January. In the meantime, I’ll just stick to reading The Onion. (Warning: As the movie ratings people say, they use language in their reporting.)
