[noefingway]

Just finished reading "Ubik", I found it partly amusing and also prescient that to get thru a door or make coffee required putting a nickel in the slot. Practically everything required a small payment in order to use it. We seem to be almost there: cars, ovens, tv's, dishwashers...the list goes on.

[sonofhans]

Yes, agreed. No other writer has so well captured the helpless, bemused terror of being imprisoned by small helpful machines.