On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Doug Elrod <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mar 16, 6:11 pm, Dennis Brumm <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Under the principle of "There's nothing new under the sun", I wonder
> > > if we're moving in a direction that has been tried before....  Maybe
> > > something relating to the monasteries of the Dark Ages?
> >
> > Good point. And during the feudal period most of the serfs didn't read...
>
> And now that I've thought about it, I'll bet that even the ubiquitous
> "over-the-shoulder box" has deep historical roots.  Unless human
> nature has changed more than I think in the last couple of thousand
> years, I'll bet that even HOMER used "visual aids" (if he was really
> blind, perhaps he travelled with someone like "Donna", a.k.a. Jill of
> All Trades, to do this sort of thing!)



We always pretty much use whatever technology is at our disposal, and
especially whenever it makes our lives more convenient.

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