Date: Monday, December 6, 1999, 4:19:48 PM Subject: Macromedia and the 20th Century… ===8<==============Original message text=============== Punters, As fascinating and innovating as Macromedia’s web technology is, I always find it quite frightening the language that is used to describe technological innovation. How can a web site ‘evolve’ like biological systems? Either this means that the [...]
the death of email
...at first it was sexy, then it became banal. At first it promised that you would be noticed, then it promised that you would be ignored. At first email gave you access to exotic places and important people, then it became the least effective way to communicate.
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