Letters to the Editor
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Running out
Yes but. You don't see too much real improvement resulting from Technology. Take flying. It actually takes very much longer to fly between two cities in the US now than it did 20 years ago. Planes actually fly slower! Am I really better off if I can order what I can't afford over the computer as opposed to when it was over the phone? Might we be seeing a change without an improvement? Yes, maybe I get a better price by not paying sales tax, but is that an improvement? Yes cable is digital making all TVs obsolete and MS Word has a nice blue back ground, but so what? What good is 80 channels of Republican TV? In the past real people owned things, now just Republican supporting corporations do. An old boss of mine once made the observation that computers made it possible for us to do better what we never had to do before. I fear that Paul is all too correct.