[celticjames]

It's weird. When I was a kid, it took hours to make a trans-atlantic call to my grandmother. Now I feel like a man lost in the desert if I'm momentarily disconnected from globally available near-lightspeed communication.

For those looking for a distraction while email is temporarily gone, why not contemplate the lighter side of the singularity: http://www.cracked.com/video_18400_why-scariest-sci-fi-robot...