Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999, 11:42:46 AM Subject: The 20th Century ===8<==============Original message text=============== With only 43 days left until the end of the 20th Century it is possibly important for us, as members of a public institution that is perhaps reflective of and dogged by late 20th Century nihilism, apathy and expediency, to think [...]
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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