So I dropped out of college for a few years, and during that period I worked at the Tower Records in Atlanta for about 2 years. This was First Gulf War time, so

So I dropped out of college for a few years, and during that period I worked at the Tower Records in Atlanta for about 2 years. This was First Gulf War time, so it must have been 90-91. Fun job, still friends with more people from that job than any other I've had. It was no one's first record store job, so everyone there was pretty knowledgeable about at least a couple musical genres. Company was not exactly a model of good management techniques, but whatever, as a sales clerk it was great fun. Anyway, I remember one night stuck on the cash register and bored, so I did some literal back of the envelope calculations. I took the CD storage capacity and the trend in increasing data rates for modems and figured out you'd be able to download albums in a practical amount of time in about the year 2000. I then told all my co-workers to not make a career of the record store business because we were all doomed by digital downloads in about 10 years. Funny how much I got wrong but still got the end result right.