Scott Adams, "The Dilbert Principle". Bought it at a used book place, $1, and I can't get very far in it. Way, way too funny. One of the funniest vignettes involves the evolution of Man and tools, leading up to computers. For my $1 I'm going to quote a section.

"Anyway, it took us many years to get to this lofty level of evolution. That leisurely pace of change was okay, because there wasn't much to do except sit around and hope you didn't get eaten by wild pigs. Then somebody fell on a sharp stick and the spear was invented. That's when the trouble started.

"I wasn't there, but I'm willing to bet that some people said the spear would never replace fingernails as the fighting tool of choice. The naysayers probably hurled bad names at the spear-users - - names like "moog" and "blinth." (This was before the merchant marines had been created, so swearing wasn't very good yet.)

"But "diversity" was not celebrated back then, and I suspect the "Say No to Spear" people finally got the "point" if you catch my drift.

"The good thing about a spear is that almost everybody could understand it. It had basically one feature: The pointy end. Our brains were fully equipped for this level of complexity. And not just the brains of the intelligentsia, either -- the common man could find his way around a spear too. Life was good, save for the occasional plague and the fact that the average life expectancy was seven . . . and the fact that you'd be praying for death after the age of four."

Arf