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It is a mixed blessing, this World Wide Web, this Misinformation and Disinformation Superhighway, this Jenny Say Quoits of the age.
It is a landmark day – week- -month. For years more and more we experience what in an e-joke once sent me was called orld Wide Waiting. Then we got a different service, so I could actually check my email in under two hours. Then we actually got wireless access so we could actually sit in comfort at more than one computer and browse.
Then I figured out how to get a bit stronger signal in the sitting room so Lulu could browse more comfortably – in fact, she will shiortly read this, say hi to Lulu, everybody.
Hi, Lulu.
But then – I spent the past two days throwing out – I HOP- a little virus [not my first, not my last]. And spending more time on line bbecause I CAN do something can eat into productivity.
And yet is it not a triumph? Right up there with flying in only a few hours to London – with long gridlocked drives at both ends. both
They say you can’t stop progress. We will just hop you can progress past a stop.
Spider webs have sticky threads.
