just as an aside...I remember sitting around a table at a music camp 7-8 years ago, talking about our music notebooks and the new thing we had going called "The Digital Tradition", where songs were being compiled on 3½ floppies and traded..and I mused aloud that it sure would be nice if someone would invent a way to scan words from books and make them editable and indexable...and a guy on the other side of the table said.."oh, they HAVE those now..it's about a $12,000 program..."....and now we can go get color scanners with OCR built in for a few hundred. I can now make free phone calls from my PC to anywhere in the US, listen to folk singing..live! from Wales, Australia, Hawaii, and Colorado...and take a picture and have it viewed by any of those people in just a few minutes.....

Sometimes it takes my breath away....and the pace of change is still accelerating..