Evolution.
We are witnessing the process even if it does take hundreds of years to complete. Back in the Middle Ages, about the only way people knew what was going on were from what the travelling merchants and the story tellers of the travelling fairs had to report.


Then someone came up with a printing press and that progressed into newspapers, magazines and books. Once people actually learned to read they could find out what was happening in the world within a reasonable time of the occurrence.


Along came the telegraph and we had almost instantaneous transmission of data so people could print it in newspapers for the populace to read.


Hang onto your seats, along came the radio. Wow, virtually instant transmissions of world events, including the War of the Worlds. Heck many people believed that because it was on the radio.


Newspapers actually started their slow demise when radio came out and then the TV was invented and that also kept the demise of newspapers going, plus magazines started faltering, but books kept going.


The next catalyst of course was the computer and the creation of the internet and WiFi. Not only were the majority of people not reading the newspapers anymore but the printed word became greatly at risk. Magazines started getting dropped like crazy and now the even books are becoming a dying form of entertainment. Kindle and the others like it have just about caused that industry to cease.


This all makes me wonder, just what does the future hold for us? What fantastic inventions will they come up with?


However, none of these things have stopped the feeling of casting a fly line, laying down the fly upon the water and seeing a fish come for the take. Sure we have better equipment now than they did going back hundreds of years, or thousands, but that same feeling of the cast and the take still lives on.


Larry ---sagefisher---