Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for January 30, 2020

Like Id, it will be censored in some countries.

The horror, the horror.

… then some of the information will be fake …

You’ll need 5g.

She’s right about that, especially where we are now!

Whoever said “bad news travels fast” never had dial-up.

Deadly accurate!

We have these amazing things people could only dream of just 40 years ago, and we whine and moan about the tiniest inconvenience with them.

and some of it will make you wonder why you got access to it in the first place!

Are those her eye brows or just frizzy hair ?

Using the Lord’s name in a comic strip?

I do not want anyone telling me my future and I do not want anyone ruining the ending of any book that I am reading for the same reason.

Rodney will just use it for porn.

We internet pioneers smile at the poor internet citizens of today who were born with Wi Fi. How could they imagine life with only dial phones, pagers, mimeographs and white out?

and the majority of its use will be for watching cat videos

We have become a world of obsession and impatience over electronic devices…sigh

Must be AT&T crystal ball service?

The real horror is that it will only be true at times…

Sorry, Sir Rodney, that is all we can tell you. You’ve used up all my data limit for the month…

The bad news will be lightning fast; The good news will be tormentingly slow.

Never satisfied.

Yeah, sounds about right….

I’m holding out for 6g.

I haven’t had slow internet in YEARS, Sir Rodney! And I don’t want to brag, but I’m doing . . . moderate!

I read years ago about an accountant who bought a DOS accounting program. One day he got frustrated because it was taking 30 seconds to sort a file needed to generate a report. He had to laugh at himself when he realized it used to take half a day to get that information in order and here he was complaining about less than a minute.

I’m the fortune teller and my customers are Sir Rodney.

It won’t be as fast as the crystal ball.

We can have all the information we want, as long as we don’t want anything specific.

No matter how much capacity the hardware provides, the coders will use it all up. VMS mainframe operating system was less than 5 MB. Now, a less capable one (except for media and graphics) is 3 orders of magnitude larger. Microsoft takes 1 line of XML and makes it into a 30 KB file. Software bloat is amazing.