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In article >,
says...
> 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>

As I read this, the idea of getting cash from a machine was in fact a
dream at one point in my life. But now everything is electronic... I
write one check per month and even that's going away. Everything else is
either swiped, punched, PayPal'd or BillPay'd. I use less and less
actual cash as the years go by.