That's right, the musical about a small-time hoodlum gone good by selling marching band materials in Iowa. See, there's this one scene where all the snot-nosed kids of River City bop up and down on Main Street singing about the Wells Fargo Wagon, before it became a bank of insatiable appetite. In this bygone time of innocence, you'd make a purchase from a catalog, slip it in some horse rider's satchel for a week's journey cross country, and then, about a month later, the wagon would arrive with your merchandise. Along the way, the horse and wagon were prey to roving bands of robbers with six-shooters and bandanas. And you're worried about credit-card security.
Impatience is a way of life.
Or, as author Larry Wall points out in one of his programming books, it may just be a byproduct. Laziness, impatience and hubris. Just another cliched call to stop and smell the burned microchips. Even as the popularity of the Internet grows, if you're online now, you're still experiencing the beginnings of digital living. To wish for a future free of crashes, bugs and slow transfers is natural, nay encouraging.