flash gordon's got nuttin on me

Here I am flying to Texas and using wi-fi..in a few years this will seem so yesterday but today I am a little mindbent. chatting, blogging, studying in my course, even looking up research..everything works but skype. so why can't we find a cure for AIDS or a vaccine for HIV...why can't we get rid of the continent of plastic in the middle of the ocean? are we truly entering a modern time even as we step backwards in time in our political world. what happens in a world in which technology goes so quickly that colleges can't get professors who know as much about it as 15 year olds? and at the same time Haiti and Pakistan flounder in cholera and misery from their floods? i'm looking around the airport in Atlanta, a city with a very high proportion of minority residents and yet I see a sea of white and nearly white faces. is this because the haves and have nots are becoming further and further stratified along color lines? thoroughly modern are we as the things that truly matter recede into the dark ages and silly blogs go shooting across the universe at the speed of...what?