We have always communicated though limited written language, a pictograph, a note, a telegraph, now we have email, text messaging, facebook, twitter and personal blogs. Technology has closed the distance between all of us and has accelerated the process of communication, but our messages are not getting longer. We are unlimited by distance. To maintain fulfilling and intimate long-distance relationships with friends and family that live thousands of miles away is not only completely possible but now utterly ordinary. We are unlimited by cost. There is no longer any need for a intermediary, a sheet of paper or a postage stamp. We are not limited by time. When an email is sent from Bangkok it will arrive in the recipients Inbox with in a moment, the time it takes to hand a letter to someone sitting next to you.
If uploading, emailing and texting is so easy and something that we do so seamlessly why is it we are not communicating more? more detail, more emotions, more words, more letters?
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