• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

From The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Centuryby Thomas L. Friedman.

“Suddenly ordinary people could get the benefit of computing without being programmers.”

We’ve made some strides on this front but until family members can stop relying on the techies in their lives for technical support I think there is a long way to go.