Hello, good to touch base with you. Still, some messages end up being just as detailed as a paper letter. They all are saved automatically on the computer. I wonder if future biographers, who have spent a lot of this century complaining about the death of the letter, will find new troves of material in the e-mail archives of their subjects. Three out of four of us still do not use e-mail.
Most people still get along perfectly fine without it.
But, then, most people also got by with rotary phones long after touch-tone was invented. Ours will be the last generation not to take e-mail, or whatever instant, effortless communications breakthrough replaces it, for granted. St. Petersburg Times. All rights reserved.