Lately, I can’t help but be contemplative about connectivity in a world hell-bent on not connecting…

I am old enough to have been a child back when GEnie was getting started back in 1985 as an alternative to CompuServe. Basically dial-up connections to BBS’s, games, and chat rooms way, way back. It was back on GEnie that I first discovered the Science Fiction Roundtable, often thought of as a sort of unofficial SFWA chat room, and ended up chatting with some big name folks like Jerry Pournell...