I remember reading "Computing Across America" on Compuserve back in the eighties, as it was happening. At first I wasn't sure whether it was a true story or an elaborate fiction. Reading the stories written in raw ASCII code on an 8-switch handlebar chording keyboard, and downloaded through my 1200-bps modem with its flickering red LEDs, as the words appeared on a slow-phosphor amber monitor, I really felt like I was living in the future, and everything was possible.