Sorry to disturb you, he said. But they tell me you teach a course about our new media and technology. I need some advice. The trouble began with the slowdown of children s letters back at the North Pole, he confided. I put my elves on the problem, and they found the answer.
Children don t write letters any more.
Most of them are using the Internet and ordering from websites and catalogs. We re facing a new millennium, I said. To quote my students Get a New Life. I heard that kind of talk way back at the beginning of this century. They called it the Progressive Era.