Nobody asked me, but … (#29)
August 21st, 2008 Al KalterIn these times, everyone seems to take technology for granted. As Joni Mitchell sang in Big Yellow Taxi, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” And so, when a tropical storm hits Florida, and people start losing electrical service, and phone service, and internet connectivity, and so on, well, it’s enough of a disaster that the governor starts asking for federal aid and the TV talking heads start reporting from our locale. Last week, we had a similar technology catastrophe to deal with on a personal level - our daughter’s cell phone stopped working.