Stephanie West Allen of Idealawg asks, "If you have the mediator, why do you need the software? while Diane Levin of Online Guide to Mediation blogs on Tractis, a web-based platform to revolutionize the negotiation, management, and execution of contracts in e-commerce here.

 

Grandmother didn't just possess this wringer washer; she used it when I was a child.  And the clothesline at the right is the type planted in my suburban backyard in the early '60s - the one I used to hang the laundry on with clothespins when I was a child.

 

And this is the manual typewriter on which I learned the QWERTY keyboard in my junior year of highschool in 1968.  

And this (right) is the mimeograph machine we used to print flyers to announce our consciousness-raising groups in the early 1970's.  

It's not exactly walking 10 miles to school in the snow.  But, you know, I'm a HUGE FAN of progress.

So, I say -- bring Artificial Intelligence on!