A girlfriend and I were talking today about some of the technology challenges we face and how things have changed over the years.  We both remember a first TV being brought home in the mid 1950's.  The conversation brought to mind a memory my father shared with me.  He was born in 1916 and remembered that at the age of three or four he took a trip each weekend with his mom to her parents' farm so she could help with the housekeeping.  What fascinated me was that they would get on the train on Saturday morning to travel from Woodburn to New Haven (a distance of about 10 miles), then be picked up at the station by his grandfather in the surrey (he never mentioned if there was a fringe on top) and taken to the farm.  On Sunday afternoon, his dad would come and pick them up in the Model T and take them back to their home in Woodburn.  Train, horse, car every weekend.  It seems to me a fascinating snapshot of the evolution of one kind of technology.