In many ways it has made life easier, but at the same time has upped the aggravation quotient.
What used to take weeks to generate/finish/answer now takes hours, but we're expected to be just that much MORE efficient. Meanwhile, my desks at work and at home are still laden down with papers.
Instead of using our heads, we use a keyboard. Instead of getting things in an envelope and mailed out, we email and hope the recipient sees it.
We know longer have to trust our kids to tell us where they're going, we just call their cell phones.
I think that in the future, every baby that comes out of the fetal incubator will have a communications implant inserted behind their ears and little keys attached to their fingers....
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