[evilC]

I have to agree with most of the comments regarding editing and style. There is a reason for editors. Unfamiliar words should be used for variety more than showing erudition.
(Was that last sentence meant as an example of itself? ed.)

For web presentations, which I know this piece was not intended to be, this is most important. Long pieces are much harder to read on a screen due to the need to scroll. An article that would be perfectly acceptable for paper may be way to long for web use. Two or three "page downs" is probably enough.
(maybe you could tighten that last para. ed.)

I like the fact that you included footnotes. You wrote some good lines ("try running a laptop on Windex" LOL)

I hope that my comments and those of other FReepers do not discourage you. It is obvious that you have a brain and a vocabulary and are willing to use both. In our sometimes "dumbed down", soundbitten world that is a good thing.
(soundbitten??, Should that be "these are good things" ed.)

[Landru]

You're up, A-M.

And all too soon & before you knew it, you're the mentor.

...doesn't seem fair, huh. ;^)