It's Magic

I'm sitting in my parents house although, curiously, it's now my house. My mother's entire estate is going to be split two ways. I get half; my brother gets half. So even though I could never remotely begin to think of my parent's house as my house, it is.

Perhaps the most amazing thing about my parent's house is that it has Internet for the taking. I sit down at the kitchen table, turn on my laptop, boot, and, voila! I'm on the Internet. No modems, no cables, no nothing.

How is this even possible? While my mother tried her best to stay up with the times, she wasn't a technical maven. So that wireless Internet exists in her house is not her doing. Whence comes my mother's wireless connection? How is my laptop receiving it. Arthur C. Clark once said any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

This is truly magic.

Wireless Internet is without doubt the most amazing thing I've ever seen using a computer.
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