I like the saying "the future is not evenly distributed". October 2000: My digital camera was $500, not $5500. I used to carry it all over the place. Not eve

I like the saying "the future is not evenly distributed". October 2000: My digital camera was $500, not $5500. I used to carry it all over the place. Not everyone relies on pockets! November 2000: I did a 4800 bps dialup call over an analog cell connection to get a map going in a pinch while parked in a rental car far from home. The hardest part was figuring out where I was so as to have a meaningful "start" address for mapquest. That involved getting lucky and finding a storefront with a number visible, then looking at a yellow pages site for all of the locations of that store in the town I was in to see which one matched. That gave me a street name and now I had a starting address. (Newark, DE, you are on my list of miserable places to navigate at night.) Normal people would never do the 4800 bps PPP craziness with images disabled, but a $500 camera from CompUSA (remember them?) isn't that special.