More random thoughts in search of a theme.
A good friend of mine refuses to use e-mail. She's something of a technophobe, and always manages to bungle up her computer every time she touches it, so she has learned to avoid touching it. As a result she and I play telephone tag: she calls when I'm not home, and when I call her back she's not home. This can go on for weeks.
I refer to the telephone as an "interruption technology" because it demands you put down whatever you're doing and turn all your attention to it. In this day & age that is increasingly not how people operate.
People e-mail, people text, people leave status messages on Facebook. People DVR their TV shows so they can watch them when it's convenient.
When news happens, I can always catch up with it on YouTube or online sources.
I heard Keith Emerson had died yesterday before the news media even got the story, because somebody I know is Facebook friends with Carl Palmer. Sometimes news travels faster through the Internet.
Kids these days stream music, and the entire history of music is at their fingertips. They don't know or care if Hendrix played "Red House" first, or Stevie Ray Vaughan played "Red House" in the style of Jimi Hendrix. To them, it is two similar artists playing the same song. Starcastle sounds like Yes, but it could be Yes is copying Starcastle, they don't know. Or care. The playing field is absolutely level, because all timeline clues have been removed.