h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Soon it appears it will be completely impractical for anyone to be in any industry other than computer building or maintenance, thus leading to the demise of shoe shops everywhere.

Except, I feel, for those shoe shops that cater for that particularly hard wearing shoe/boot that all technicians etc seem to wear

This will inevitably lead to the death of the human race through the sprread of a deadly form of athletes foot.

Surely atheletes foot is due to wearing overpriced trainers and doing exercise!
As the world becomes dominated by computers, surely exercise will not be neccesary.
This will lead to the extinction of current foot fungii, and hopefully Nike, Adidas, Reebok, etc.

No, the shoe companies don't die. On computer's everyone will say 'I'm wearing a really expensive shoe.' and Nike, etc. will make millions making VIRTUAL SHOES, demising family local virtual shoe buisnesses.

I am reporting that somebody mugged my computer and stole my virtual shoes (blue NIKE's). I hope my foot rot eats his virtual toes of.

You mean VIRTUAL foot rot. To make sure my V-Shoes don't get stolen I put the Melissa virus (and Back Orfice trojan) in them. Evil LOL.

EVERY ONE KEEPS FORGETTING THE POOR (SOLES) WHO INHABIT THE TWIGHLILT WORLD OF THE VIRTUAL SOCK BUISNESS, CMON GUYS GIVE A SOCKER AN EVEN BREAK!!!!!!!!

I hear that. the problem is that the current virtual fasion in virtual shoes is to wear them without virtual socks apparently in order to avoid virtual foot oudour. This means that my virtual sock buisness has colapsed in a virtual minute and I now sell virtual bunion powder.

I find that wearing shoes without socks makes the odour VIRTUALLY unbearable.

Gabes

Erm, does "reality" get a look-in here or do you all live inside the computers who apparently started this virtual feet business?!

I saw a computer with his virtual socks pulled right up to his virtual knees the other day. He looked a right spanner I can tell you.

I would reply to all this but I think I'd just get a headache...

my god! i've created a monster! thread!
well, nothing for it. i now have size one million virtual sgi workstation shoes, that would cost you a small solar system but *i* have.