No happiness without patience ~ Part Two

No patience for Google

Consider the Internet. You type 'electric toothpicks'. You hit 'enter'. Google responds: 'Search took 1.02 seconds.'

'Seems kinda slow,' you think. 'Google is ready for the geriatric ward.' You click on the first result – something about an electric eel eating a balanced breakfast – and a blank screen appears. You wait.

TRIVIA QUESTION: Did you know that Shakespeare once waited almost twenty seconds for a web site to appear, so he could find a word that rhymed with cardiologist? The web site finally appeared in 1997, but he had given up waiting by then.

Five seconds pass. Time's up and still not site. Your instant gratification cells have been offended. You surf to another site.

'Ugh. No get Mammoth Burger web site. This thing no work.'

'That thing rock.'

'Rock broken. Go to mammoth burger walk-through'

I don't want to walk to get happiness. I want it delivered now. Not twenty seconds later, even if it does rhyme with cardiologist. Not 1.02 seconds later. I want happiness now."

by David Leonhardt

Jackson

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