Attention!

I am not too proud to say I'm wrong when I am, so there, I was, I'll admit it. Against my most cynical reservations, television did turn out to be the university in every home that it promised, and the telephone also did end loneliness. It worked best of all once we turned it off, went next door, and invited our neighbors over to teach us stuff. Someone always brought food. Hunger, unsurprisingly,…