Sign of the E-Times
If you eat right and wear a seatbelt, chances are you will outlive Johannes Gutenberg's printed page.
I spent last night at one of those old-fashioned clubs that line the blocks of midtown New York City. One of the annoyances of such clubs is that they typically have rules forbidding laptops in public spaces. You want to read the paper with breakfast? You have to read the PAPER. Only ... they don't enforce the rule against iPads or Kindles. "The board decided that these were reading devices, not working machines," a manager explained as I was wondering why I couldn't read my email in the bar last night while the man next to me was allowed to read his.
Say what you will about the merits of the club rule, but it's got this significance: It's one more sign that if you eat right and wear a seatbelt, you will outlive Johannes Gutenberg's printed page.