I love this new world we live in.

Today we got an auto registration in the mail, and there was a minor problem. Mrs. Knilram’s last name was spelled incorrectly. In the old world, I would have had to go the the Department of Motor Vehicles office, stand in line to talk to someone and get a form to fill out.

Instead, we went on line and found the phone number to call. Work through the phone menu to get the correct person on the line. She told me the form number to fill out. I hung up, went to the web site, downloaded the form, and everything is ready.

We aren’t all the way to where I’d like our world to be. It would be great to get all the information on the web so I could have skipped the phone call, and filled out the form online so we didn’t have to mail it in. But it is great how far we have come.

I don’t think my kids realize what an amazing world we live in, since they grew up with the Internet. I’ve told them that we didn’t have computers when I was their age. But they also think we didn’t need computers since we didn’t have telephones or cars that required registration back then either. (“I mean, how did you place Voice over IP phone calls before TCP/IP? And how did your fuel injectors ever work if you didn’t have computer chips in the car’s engine?”)