Knowledge Is Only a Few Clicks Away
The internet is truly amazing. Check this out:
I was on twitter and read the following on the public timeline (a list of all public updates):
“the song ‘so much’ by spill canvas is amazing”
I thought to myself, “I wonder what that song sounds like.”
Now, when I was younger I’d have to go to the record store and buy it to find out if I even liked the band. Today, instead, I went here, which brought me here, which gave me the song.
Three hops to sample the full song. And if I like it, I can buy the album on iTunes.
Don’t ever take this wonderful thing for granted, because it could be destroyed as fast as it came into being.
PS: Its a very good song. You can tell when a person feels real love. I know, because I feel it too.
Nyrath the nearly wise 7:49 pm on 2/16/2007 Permalink
SF author Jerry Pournelle sort of predicted that in the future we would be connected to the equivalent of the Library of Congress.
He ruefully admits he did NOT predict that people would bitch and moan if Google didn’t cough up the data they wanted in under five seconds.