Drones and the Sound of Silence

Amazon just announced its plan to offer thirty-minute

delivery of products to Amazon Prime members.

I greet that announcement with a

sigh, rather than any real enthusiasm for the process.

Soon it will be followed by pizza

and fast-food deliveries, anything light enough for Wal-Mart to send your way

and surveillance by local police as well as private companies promising a good

night’s sleep.

If only you could sleep. And

that’s my point.

The now society demands immediacy and the silent

majority yearns for quiet in a battle that can never satisfy both.

Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence comes to mind.