No one was able to stop the telegraph in order to save the Pony Express. No one was able to stop the telephone in order to save the telegraph. It's fair to bemoan the passing of an order, to acknowledge what is lost even as something else is gained. But afterwards, one must look to the future and find a new niche to fill in the new order. It is not the one that one may have wanted for oneself, but one either moves forward, or one gets left behind, for there is no stopping the wheel of progression.
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