well! Today it popped up instantly, and played just fine.

Pretty interesting scenario as it moves almost imperceptibly from history to speculation and prediction.

I do think that perhaps various entities such as Google and MS and others are doing 'creative, assimilative technological reordering' faster than most of the world can appreciate or understand....fast enough to give Alvin Toffler ulcers!

There ought to be some vetting process before we all become part of a few people's idea of Global Integration. I, for one, do not WISH for all my computer programs, written by individuals and chosen by ME for the features I like, to be replaced with 'online' generalized functions controlled by only a few.

But at my age and with my knowlege, I don't know how to avoid it. Maybe I won't have to...maybe only my son needs to worry, and he has very little of the concept of what it was like to be ABLE to choose in a free market the parameters of his life.

scary, it is...