Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:17:55 AM Subject: Winners and Losers.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== In the constructive desire to halt any animosity that I may have created with Damien by my rather pedestrian concerns that technology can only be understood within broader social, historical and political structures, I have decided to log-off and find a [...]
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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