Making Light: Making Light, Your Source for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” Blogging:
This is what you have to compete with. Presented with revolutionary, world-spanning communications technology, and the ability to instantly retrieve information from an astonishing array of sources, and send it to any of a truly mind-boggling number of people, this is what we use it for.
Futurism never stood a chance.
Robertson Davies, in his guise as Samuel Marchbanks, said something similar 40-odd years ago, as did Thoreau. Can’t put my finger on the Marchbanks quotation, but the others may prove edifying or amusing.