Fantasy Football

A few nights ago, I was involved in a fantasy football draft involving fellow alumni of Grinnell College (for those of you who don't know, fantasy football is a game that either has or is in the process of taking over the world invented to prevent anything useful from getting accomplished on Mondays immediately following weekends involving NFL games). We conducted the entire thing while speaking to one another on a conference call via Skype.  The first thing that came to my mind while sitting in Bulgaria and listening to my friends located in Sweden and at least three different time zones in the United States was . . .  what an incredible waste of this technology.  I mean think about it: someone went through all the work to invent the internet and then someone else went through the effort of coming up with Skype - and what important purposes did we have to make use of all of these technological wonders?  Making jokes and playing fantasy football.  I can't help but feel like our technological forefathers would be a bit disappointed.  But on the other hand, my team is awesome, so they would probably be proud of that.