It's not a waste of time nor resources...

Wired's opening paragraph reads:

Looking back, Diana Francis says she should have known it would be a big waste of time. She sat for hours each day in her husband's home office in Houston scouring little digital snapshots of the Nevada desert on Amazon.com, in hopes that she'd help locate vanished millionaire aviator Steve Fossett.
Finally, though, she decided the exercise was tedious and unproductive.

I think not, look at what might become of this amazon beta program - help others find stuff from anywhere in the world? What if Chris Columbus had a webcam on board and folks helping him? Or better yet, Amelia having somebody with her? Or Neil Amrstrong having a camera on his helmet so we could direct him?

Maybe are are a bit overboard with the internet thing, but i see no harm done either way with the hardware or the timeware of spending it sitting down....

We have no idea what this information age will bring us....

I would not call any excercise tedious nor unproductive, it might be gosh or trendy, but not wasting anyting, it's the exact opposite in fact.

I'm about to give up on the blog since nobody replies, but still have 100+ views?