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wrote:
> Peter Aitken > wrote:
>
>> Yeah - I figure you'll order by compuer and the pizza will come out
>> of your printer. Pepperoni ink!
>
> When my parents were kids, most people than could not imagine getting
> cash out of a machine any time of the day or night, or cooking in a
> microwave oven, or sitting in front of a computer and having a
> conversation (both video and audio) with someone thousands of miles
> away via the Internet.

When your *parents* were kids? How about when I was a kid? ATM's were a
mere dream - the Internet was a government project and there certainly was
no such thing as a computer that didn't take up a huge very cold room. A
conversation with someone thousands of miles away required a telephone and
an operator to connect you. <G>