A quote from Obama advisor David Axelrod:
"One of the things that I'm sure that we had no idea we were going to
hear when we came to the White House is, 'Sir, the robots bumped into
the riser and knocked the top hat off the well.' These are things you
don't anticipate. And every day has something like that. 'The pirate
has the captain. What do we do, sir?'"
Yup. That's high technology for you. Everyone ends up knowing -- and
worrying -- about stuff we had never heard of a few years ago. Life
did used to be simpler. Actually, though mastering early 20th century
technology took a lot more smarts and practice than dealing with
today's stuff. There were fewer machines and they were simpler, but a
lot harder to use.
- Jed
