It's amazing how fast things change. I can remember when I was a teenager how excited I was to purchase a used 8-track tape player to play my favorite music. No sooner had I reveled in that than I needed a cassette recorder to enjoy the newest artists because everything was changing to that format. Today tapes seem so noisy and cumbersome compared to the compact discs that are available. And I know there is newer technology out there that will someday replace my nicely stacked CDs. And all this while two crates of record albums are getting warped in the attic. My, how things change.

And though I am a novice on the computer compared to most people, even I have chronicled in my mind the changes the last few years. I can listen to my CDs through the computer. The computer now tells you…