Brian and Libby's Blog

Lost in Sorrento

Food for thought...this morning I got a phone call from Caroline (younger sister, currently spending a semester in Italy). She and her 3 girlfriends were on their way to their weekend excursion in Sorrento. They were scheduled to meet their tour at 7 pm and had no idea how to get to their hostel (which Caroline was very anxious about in the first place). So Caroline called me and I logged into her e-mail to retrieve the map, tour guide's phone number, and some information about the train station and schedules.
So Brian and I were considering this over dinner...Caroline is standing in the middle of a small town in Italy. I am sitting in my office in Albany New York. She picks up a cell phone, and in a few seconds I am listening to her shouting over the background noise of mopeds and a busy marketplace. She gives me information, with which I retrieve information from a virtual location, which contains the information she needs to find out 1. where she is, 2. where she's going, and hopefully, 3. how to get there. Brian pointed out how absolutely and fascinatingly bizarre that entire exchange was. I know we all love our tech gizmos and we all "know how they work" (ok, I do to some degree), but in this particular case, I choose to be fascinated rather than logical.

posted by Libby @ 5:56 PM