How long has it been since wireless internet connectivity became a household standard? Surely no more than seven years and already we take it for granted. At least I do anyway.
Tonight I sit on the back patio sending typewritten words sailing through the air and remember back to when even a telephone conversation required an umbilacle cord - that curly elastic cord that connected the handset to the black box hanging on the wall. The same cord that teenagers tied in knots as they dared to ask someone out on a date. The same cord that parents swore over when they struggled to untie the knots their kids had tied - and discovered in the midst of the coils the two #2 pencils that had disappeared from the kitchen message center days before.
What will the "standard" be seven years from now I wonder.
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