Flutterby™! :

So while I was sick I finished reading Tad Williams' Otherland: City of Golden Shadow which I started on the recommendation of Cameron. Full review coming in a bit, it's the first in a series and seems to be heading towards a couple of the VR clichés, but it did get me back into the mode of thinking about immersive environments again. Two things leaped out at me: I think I went to high school with the cover artist; and there was a comment in there about how at the beginning of this century packaged foods were coming in and were primarily a domain of the rich, and how at the end of this century the rich are the ones with the best access to fresh food and it's the poor who eat the packaged food. I think the same parallel can be drawn to television. Something to consider next time you hear calls for more computers in the schools.