The Speed of Thought? Almost

Bill Gates made a prediction that it would not be long before the internet gave us real time results for our thoughts.

I have to say he is mostly correct, and I have daily evidences of that.

Someone in the next seat over talking to someone about that one movie where so and so was the lead role with whats-his-name and they were being chased all over by this underground organization, and, wow, it's on the tip of my tongue, and within that amount of time, I can usually say, that was The Net, with Sandra Bullock and Dennis Miller, Yeah, that's it, and I did that on my iPhone.

The thing is it happens all the time, what does a rugby ball look like, what is ataraxia, what state has the largest football stadium, all kinds of stuff, and much of it downright trivial in nature.

So why my excitement tonight? Well, tonight I got a call from a young lady I have not talked to in over 25 years, Chrissy, and I am telling you, it was like we were kids on the phone again, just out of high school, never had we met except through letters and an occasional phone call, and then, life happened, and we stopped talking. That was then.

One recent evening I was going over some memories in my mind, and her name popped up so I typed into Google, her name just as I remembered it, and the first three hits were Reunion.com (shameless plug). While at first I was excited to find that I could see some of the details about her that I recognized were probably her, no contact info was available unless I signed up for three months minimum.

So i did, and got her phone number and called her, yep, her message still sounded like her, wow, she had her old name back. What's she been up to? So I left her a message with a few key moments described that I figured would jog her memory if it really was her and would not mean a thing if not, and left my cell phone number.

The next day, right at the end of a perfect day, I was driving home from a run to the store, and she called me and we talked for an hour, and reminisced, and I laughed as I thought about how, tonight we were reunited after more than 25 years, and it took Googling her name, and paying a small price to access a reunion service, and she was now on the phone with me. If that isn't speed of thought, it almost is, and is darn well close enough for most of us.