One million downloads

It has occurred to me that, in the era of You Tube, we will never see the likes of Mark Twain again.

People will write and there will be great proponents of the art but, just like boxing, standards will slowly drop.

In the old days boxing was a top spectator sport, there were no health concerns and many saw it as a wormhole out of poverty.

Not any more. 92 year old Fred tells me (I am paraphrasing here) that an average Sydney boxer of the 1930’s would be a world champ now.

That bit of information would have taken me all of a Saturday afternoon to receive.

People will always read but the need for the witty and insightful commentator is attenuated when you can watch the events for yourself.

And the number of people wanting to become the witty and  insightful commentator will also fade as the audience turns their attention to the viral similitude.

They will instead become handy with the electronic zoom.