I finally broke down and bought an iPhone. It is astonishing--and beautiful. The little icons sparkling on the shiny black screen remind me of stained glass--in fact, I wonder if there is a stained glass app on the iPhone.I have not gotten an iPad--but can certainly see the attraction. Anyone succumbed yet?Here, for your amazement and amusement, is a 1969 ad for the "internet." (HT: Daily Dish).

Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.

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