Technology.

My favorite Oscar moment: realizing I share one brain with a roomful of very smart, very sarcastic, reasonably attractive individuals. In the two seconds following Miss Kate's ABOUT-DAMN-TIME Oscar win, our twitter pages were buzzing. We are lame but it is a study in how our generation works: a competition to report first; pop culture zealotism; need to broadcast/simulcast/podcast our opinions.  Either way, had fun and am pleased that our Katie won (we are also deluded enough to believe these people are or would be our friends, across socioeconomic levels, attractiveness scales, time/space.)