When the century began, bankers "beamed" each other information via the now-quaint infrared technology of the Palm Pilot, whose maker had a market value of $92 billion.
EAST MACHIAS, Me. — Paul Madore, the chairman of Ron Paul's campaign in Maine, ate breakfast and looked over voting information on Saturday morning in a quaint inn in this small town in Washington County.
In 2013, we're long past the quaint notion that we are "voluntarily" sharing our information with third parties — and therefore removing it from the protections of the Fourth Amendment.
Even if Rose is guilty, and I have no opinion or information, the injuries he perpetrated may seem quaint and mostly self-inflicted to a new generation.
Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory — thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor information being used by pharmaceutical companies to market drugs.
This is partly a side effect of our information economy, in which "paying for things" is a quaint, discredited old 20th-century custom, like calling people after having sex with them.
"The guy who lives and breathes with stats, with information and stories and background and all these things that sound quaint, but to these guys it's the lifeblood, their passion".
It seems quaint to imagine now but the original vision for the web was not an information superhighway.
The Age Before Infotainment That's the way it was for much of the late, increasingly quaint age known as the 20th century -- back when news was just news, not "information".
This may be a quaint notion for those of us who expect every business to have up-to-date websites with all the information we could ever ask for over the phone.
