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“…one giant leap for mankind.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our world is filled with technological wonders.<\/p>\n

I have a device that fits in my hand and pocket and contains immediate access to all the discoveries, written histories and cultural achievements in the history of humanity.<\/p>\n

Think about that for a second. It’s staggering.<\/p>\n

We’ve landed men on the moon and robots on Mars. Modern medicine is on the verge of curing and preventing Alzheimer’s, cancer and genetic causes of heart disease.<\/p>\n

But my home office printer is a spaz.<\/p>\n

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Peruvian folk dancers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have a powerful desktop computer that will whisk me off to faraway lands to enjoy the music and dancing of foreign cultures as they are actually happening. I can learn a new language and how to build or repair a house.<\/p>\n

I can see and talk with friends I haven’t contacted in decades.<\/p>\n

But my printer, a mere three feet away, can’t print a single page of text without sounding alarms and screaming out error messages. Each time it does we have to do a dance, my printer and I.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Harris as Dr. Smith and “The Robot”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few minutes ago I set the dance into motion by rebooting the printer, as usual. It has been clicking, clunking, whirring and spitting out blank pieces of paper since I started writing this.\u00a0It shakes and clatters frantically, reminding me of the flailing arms of the robot in the original Lost In Space TV series of the sixties.<\/p>\n

“Danger, Will Robinson!”<\/p>\n

The app in the computer that contains my text source is ready to rock and roll, but the chunk of plastic next to me – which\"\"<\/a> regularly reminds me I need to buy a new yellow cartridge to continue printing black ink – is still groaning and wheezing like a garbage truck.<\/p>\n

What the hell is it doing?<\/p>\n

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