Al wrote:
History brought and brings us here and now. We get old and
everybody
else runs around like there is a fire, somewhere 
Exactly. I was wondering why folk are celebrating quick
deliveries. What's such a rush that it's worth laying off
the warehouse workers, then wiring up the postmen and
turning them into robots? Then the suppliers discover that
unemployed people and robots don't order their stuff so
there's a crisis that must be China's fault, however,
meanwhile, the robot postmen have got holes in their socks
and their gadgets, for want of maintenance, have begun to
malfunction.
Many years ago, a letter or small package sent to and from
an English town up to 10pm would arrive at its destination
before 8am, having travelled by steam-train and Royal Mail
van. It was delivered by a proper, sullen, treadweary
homosapiens-style public-service postman with dogbitten
fingers, when he wasn't on strike.
The world is OK, but, the Internet is in a snit, for the
fun of it?
Unbridled socialism was bad enough when it was creeping. A
world-wide web seems to me like an impending disaster.
Ian