Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 11:00:46 AM Subject: The Death of a Cyber-Hick.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== (from a Tasmanian polemicist) This is a poem I lifted form Ted Hughes. I could be about cyber-hicks…or some other backward parochial cowboys. Cyberspace is like Texas, brash, crass, marginal full of new-money oil barrens who think that they [...]
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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