# Dragoncatcher: News travels too fast these days > Source: > Published: 2026-05-11 18:00:00+00:00 [News travels too fast these days](/lab/travels-too-fast/) I’m reading [Apple: The First 50 Years](https://bookshop.org/a/541/9781982134594?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me) by David Pogue, a chronicle replete with electrifying encounters. This is a book stuffed full of people seeing some computer for the first time and thinking, *of course! This is how it’s all going to work!* Steve Jobs chief among them, watching the demos at PARC. The astonishment of a modern LLM is on the same level, yet most people’s first encounter has been simply … visiting a web page … with the effect, I think, of deflating the experience somewhat. I suppose this is just an observation about how it feels to encounter things on the web — Surely a big part of the *wow!* of Claude Code was that it required a richer ceremony: downloading a program, inviting it into your digital home, launching an odd new interface. Yet even that is pretty thin gruel compared to the buildup and payoff of, e.g., a trek to the West Coast Computer Faire to behold the brand-new Apple II. A bit of distance does wonders for an experience; a bit of waiting has never been a bad thing! [To the blog home page](/lab/)