UPS vs. FedEx

I'm not sure about the merits either way (is work at FedEx individualized, or is it more like an assembly line?), but this is a nice video. As stuff like this gets better and better, it's pretty easy to predict the continued decline of print media.

What a video like this lacks is some version of the hyperlinks you see embedded in print articles on the Web, those internal links that you can click to get additional info on this or that. A video version would take you to another video, not to a text page. The viewer might not even have to know how to read. I don't entirely like the sound of that, but then I'm a print-age fossil. You don't have to know how to read with book download devices like the Amazon Kindle, either, because they have a digital voice option that can read the book to you. If that sounds lazy, imagine that you go blind someday.

Still, it's hard to keep from injecting a moral dimension into this: Dammit, people should know how to read! Even a term like "print-age fossil" has a sub-text of self-satisfaction and superiority. But by the standards of the 18th Century, I'm sub-literate because I don't know Latin. My defense is that almost nobody any longer needs to know Latin. Hmm, wait a sec...

Byron