It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon and the dinner rush has just swooped in. The line’s so long it continues out of the store and onto the sidewalk.

Several years ago, people were hooked on television. Remember all those studies linking TV viewing to bad grades and attitudes back long long ago? Or how parents used to say that watching too much television hurts your eyes? Those times seem so far away now that the era of speedy computers and wireless networks have arrived.