[ WP ] In the future , everyone downloads new skills straight into their brain . You have spent weeks/months/years learning a new skill , any skill , the old-fashioned way . Why ?

`` Why?'' People ask me that question a lot. Why did you buy the Porsche when a Corvette costs the same and is faster? For that matter, why did you buy a Miata when an old BMW costs the same and is faster/is n't as gay? Why game on a console when PC is so much better and cheaper? Why game on a Mac when a PC has more games? And, of course, `` Why take the time to learn a skill using an outdated method? Downloading skills is so much faster!'' 
 
 I looked up from my work – an outline for a novel I'd been working on. My friend looked at me quizzically, wondering why I had been taking the time and effort to learn how to write the old fashioned way. He was right, downloading the skill probably would've been faster, but there were problems. For starters, I'd be using someone else's writing style, and that's no where near as entertaining as developing your own. Besides, the only writing skills worth downloading are the New York Times Best Sellers skills, and those cost way too much for me to even think of it. But there was two more reasons. I looked back down at my Macbook and began to explain myself. `` I like control. All a downloaded skill can give me is someone else's technique. The thing is, though, I do n't want any of the techniques on the market today, I want one that is unique to me. Besides,'' I said as I closed the notebook and stood up, `` it is n't about the destination for me, it's about the journey.''
