It's a red-letter day on the New York Stock Exchange. After 214 of good old yelling, running, jostling, jotting down trades on paper, the digital age has arrived. Now, traders have the choice of accessing stock electronically vs. using real people to deliver the goods.
Pictures of the scene were confusing at first. Gone were the red coats, mobs of vocal traders, mounds of paper. Instead, one photo showed floor workers sitting, just sitting....Is this what technology wrought? Edison wondered it decades ago. Now it is our turn. Gone are so many things: fresh milk and newspapers on the doorstep, rotary phones (ringing phones, really) typewriters, Morse Code, records (LPs, not those goofy 45s), Johnny Carson, pay phones, and all of the "people" jobs that went along with them...What is man/woman to do, now that technology can do it faster, better, 24-7?
Maybe it will be Utopia on Earth - leisure time, time to relax, read, enjoy the season, enjoy people, travel, think, volunteer, bake, make our own clothes, build our own homes...Yes, back to the good old days, the Little House days...wait a minute, weren't those the days we were leaving behind?
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