<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 8, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Andrew Tarpinian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Aug 8, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Tony Scharf wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <<a href="mailto:evildead@nyc.rr.com">evildead@nyc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">no way, look at the little computers that you carry around every day and sometimes make phone calls with. Insane amount of information available on-demand in you pocket. Just stop and think how sci-fi that shit is.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cat toys that keep us distracted from real problems. The economy is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in the toilet, but at least I can play Angry Birds.<br></blockquote><br>What you choose to do with the technology is your choice. You can just as easily create an online petition, send an email to your congressman, read a news site from almost any country in the world, watch a video recorded in the middle of a revolution, record a song, or adopt a cat. And that's just on your lunch break.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Also the app boom may have created more jobs than the stimulus : P</div><br></body></html>