Wonderful, amazing, extraordinary, but not perfect

There are many examples of extremely bright and talented individuals in history, from Newton to Marie Curie, and we can't help but marvel at their contributions to our understanding of the Universe.

More down-to-Earth thinkers and tinkerers, from Gutenberg to Edison have also made huge contributions to civilization.

In our current era, those who will be remembered for their profound intelligence and impact, at least in my opinion, are people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The men and women who are responsible for the Information Age Revolution that we are now experiencing.

How did we get anything done without the Web and personal computers?

As wonderful as these technologies are, however, they are not perfect and sometimes act in ways that surprise us. I'm reminded of this occasionally when the shopping cart I use at naturalscratch.com doesn't work quite the way a customer expected it would.

However, most of time it works incredibly well and has permitted me to receive and fill orders for my posts from across America and around the world.