Jonty WareingI am on an intercity commuter train for the first time in 15 years. In a carriage of six people, four of them are on zoom calls. Another one called the vet. I am the sixth person.
This is hell. What are we doing here.
Nerds [1999]: We would like a pervasive connection to the global information superhighway.
Nerds [2026]: Yes but we didn't want everyone else to have it.
Phil Gyford@jonty I fantasise occasionally about "What If the Internet could only work over wired connections" Many ways things would be better, worse and weird.