Very, very good pieces this week. 4 stars E-Mail from Bill | New Yorker Delightful, excellent piece from 1993 that — I imagine — is even better with hindsight: At the moment, the best way to communicate with another person on the information highway is to exchange electronic mail: to write a message on a computer and send it through the telephone lines into someone else’s computer. In the future, people will send each other sound and pictures as well as text, and do it in real time, and improved technology will make it possible to have rich, human electronic exchanges, but at present E-mail is the closest thing we have to that. […]
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Very, very good pieces this week. 4 stars E-Mail from Bill | New Yorker Delightful, excellent piece from 1993 that — I imagine — is even better with hindsight: At the moment, the best way to communicate with another person on the information highway is to exchange electronic mail: to write a message on a computer and send it through the telephone lines into someone else’s computer. In the future, people will send each other sound and pictures as well as text, and do it in real time, and improved technology will make it possible to have rich, human electronic exchanges, but at present E-mail is the closest thing we have to that. […]