The Countdown Continues

Time marches on, and today as I am facing three days of employment yet, we are sorting, packing and writing descriptions for eBay. How did people get rid of all this stuff in days before the internet? Would we have had a company yard sale? I guess an auction house would come in and take the big stuff, but what of the box of network cables, the electric pencil sharpener, the fancy-schmancy paper-towel holder I've always hated? How did we do anything before the internet? Where did we get complete song lyrics to go with that one line stuck in our head? Get directions to someone's house? Find out who that guy was from the show last night that I just KNOW I've seen somewhere before? Now, we no longer need to learn or remember anything - just look it up. Does it make us smarter to have access to all this information right at our fingertips? Or dumber because we no longer need to keep it in our head? It's the same argument that was made about the calculator for decades. Kids learning to use calculators won't learn math. Maybe more truth to that than we realized. But, if you're looking for a good two-color, 4.1 lines per minute adding machine - well, there'll be one on eBay soon.