Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Today's Word—Commonality

NOTE: In yesterday's WORD, Christopher Morley urged us to read or think "something no one else is." Today, a different take on technology...

Lockstep:

“Thanks to the printing press, the mail coach and the steam packet—gifts beyond the gifts of fairies—we can all see and hear what each other are doing, and do and read the same things nearly at the same time.”

Maria Edgeworth, (1767-1849) Irish author (Thanks to alert WORDster Louise Montgomery)

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