Generalizing from Single Incidents

[Sandy Levinson]

My colleague Doug Laycock writes:

 The technology of transportation and communication had
> not changed in any fundamental way since ancient times.  Two generations
> later, there were suddenly railroads and telegraphs.

And now, of course, there is email.  This is the lasts despatch from
Budapest; I return to UT tomorrow, but literally everyday I find the
reality of email wondrous.

Sandy