On the way home from running a few errands the other day, I stopped and bought a new computer. I had been thinking about it for some weeks prior and had not intended to make the purchase that particular afternoon; it just seemed like a good time to do it. The entire time required for the transaction – from the time I entered the store to the time I walked out with it tucked under my arm – was less than twenty minutes. It was only a few hours later as I was sitting at our dining room table with this little electronic device roughly the size of an average book in front of me, typing onto its keyboard the various bits of information needed to set-up my e-mail and installing the software I use for my writing and photographic work that it suddenly dawned upon me what a truly remarkable thing I had just done.
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