Email, the mixed blessing of cyberexistence Email, the mixed blessing of cyberexistence Overview Email is the simplest and purest form of communication.
Feelings become thoughts, thoughts become ideas and ideas become words.
These words are sent, willy-nilly, all through cyberspace at the speed of light. At best, it is a messanger of words from loved ones. At worst, a perpetual chore-list of requests for your time, the cyberspace equivalent of a stack of bills. To most, it sways somewhere in the middle. Once a week I'd walk up to the fifth floor of MIT's student center, log in to a timesharing vt220 and see three messages from high school friends.