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Stuart G

(38,438 posts)
Tue May 18, 2021, 08:50 PM May 2021

We are in the era...of "Instant Research"...It is what it is.

So, there is a post about...Katie Porter...I didn't have to get up from the computer to get information................................ ..I googled ...."Katie Porter" & in less than a minute I had reliable information. .......................................................................... The information was about her career, history, where she comes, her education her family ....etc.etc.etc.etc.

...In the ..."Old Days" I would go to a library, walk around, look at catalogues...something called, "Readers Guide to
Periodical Literature...
...etc, etc, etc, etc,

In the ...."Very Old Days"...If I wanted copies, I would take the book to a section of the ..."library".... where the copier was
and paid a dime or quarter for each copy..If it was a copy of a ..."newspaper" there was even more work and effort to
get a copy of what I had read....

.................I think it was Bob Dylan who wrote............."The Times They Are a Changing................
and he is still alive to watch the show, and so am I and so are you............................

In the 60s...a lot of these advances were Sci Fiction....on a show called ..."Star Trek"...Someone held a
communicator in one hand and said ..."Beam Me Up Scotty",,, and I watched that show, and the reruns..and it
ain't Science Fiction any more....Now, everyone has a cell phone and can say..."Beam Me Up Scotty"...and most people
haven't got a clue what that means....NOT A CLUE...SAYS STU.....

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