The Future

betaray: Hooray for the internet
betaray: I just bought a text book for an insanely low price
betaray: because used a website that search a collection of websites that contain the inventory thousands of book stores
betaray: and one of the book stores put the used price on a new book
ralph: you make it sound like sci-fi.
betaray: and I didn't even have to leave my chair
betaray: it is sci fi!
betaray: we're in the future!!
ralph: later, an enormous assemblage of iron steel and rubber will move at high speed
ralph: down a conduit made of asphalt hundreds of miles at the speed of a cheetah
ralph: carrying your "textbook" and thousands of others
ralph: within days.
cheesoning: are you suggesting tubes/truck?
ralph: no he bought a real book
betaray: Only after being trekked cross country in a cargo air transport vessel
Cyrano: man will never fly!
Cyrano: that's just crazy talk!
betaray: Using the witchery of Bernoulli