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    Seeing the Future from 1981


    Created on Friday, May 14, 2010        Bookmark and Share

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    Check out the news story from 1981 at the bottom of this blog. It is a fascinating story about the future of journalism and the internet (although they didn't call it that back then). I completely forgot that the original modems required you to make the call by hand and then place the phone in a cradle. I still remember my first online purchase. I had talked my parents into buying a pc during my sophomore year of college (before I even thought of taking up my future major of "Information Systems"). We got a trial subscription to AOL and ordered a part through Sears. We couldn't browse their catalog - you needed to know the catalog item of the number you wanted in order to place an order.

    Well, they were right about one thing - the internet might very well be the downfall of the daily paper as we know it. While it was easy to see how we could deliver the news electronically, I don't think they could have foreseen that people wouldn't be willing to pay for it. We can get our local paper online but we still pay to get it delivered locally. I think that there are few things more important to our democracy than a strong media and thus it needs to be supported.

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    I have more fantastic news about post-apocalyptic job opportunities. In case you missed my earlier article about pet sitting after the Rapture, there is a service that will collect your pets in the event that the (semi) end days come around and you're lucky enough to have bought the right Wonka chocolate bar.

    There's a more basic service available to the chosen ones out there. A different service will notify your sinner friends and family that you've gotten to the big reacharound in the sky and they've been left behind. And it only cost $40 a year! I swear that I had no idea that there was this kind of genius out there.

    Here's how it works: if you purchase the service you are expected to log in once in a while to say that the lord hasn't come for you. Wouldn't you just kind of forget to log in once in a while to mess with your friends? I think I'm going to create a script for this website that will post a blog in the event that I do not post something within thirty days. "Hi, this is muchgooder.com. It turns out that God loves atheists so he took them all from Earth. I wish that I had signed up with a Christian pet-sitting service...."

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    The President was in town yesterday and our fair burgh only slightly managed to embarrass our collective selves. You probably heard about the billboard that asks Obama to "get us freaking jobs". It does make me sad that people appeal to our leaders to get them jobs. The role of the government should not be to create jobs. Instead, it should create an environment where business can flourish. For the life of me I can't understand why this is so hard for people to understand. We tax things that we do not want to flourish (smoking, alcohol, etc) and we do the same to business and wonder why it struggles.

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    Rebecca's blog launches this weekend. The URL? You'll have to work for that one. Myspace.com was taken, but.... wasn't.

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