Litteratura....Grammata.....e-Mail....

I quickly closed the PDA when the US Airways flight attendant announced the departure of my fight to Washington DC. I was half way through an e-mail. Sitting back I started reading the in flight magazine. An excerpt from the book "Tyranny of e-mail" by John Freeman caught my attention. Apparently Freeman has compiled enough data to support his theory that e-mail is indeed a menace!.  I can understand if he had talked about spam but the theme of his book is how e-mail has altered the business life and cases where productivity has lowered.

Pardon me! John Freeman should have put more efforts to write on how to use the e-mail tool more effectively. One can use additional spam-filters in business networks, add another "How to" training program for effective e-mail communication.

I thought some people must have reacted the same way as the author in every epoch of human history when the cave paintings were replaced by clay tablets, papyrus, Palmyra leaves and subsequently ink and paper followed by printed material and now Internet and e-messages!.

Expression of thought, feelings, imagination, facts, and news require a medium. The evolution of writing shows that we have been constantly in search of or improving the tools to convey our thoughts. Why blame e-mail or newer technology!

                                         Photo: Rinconada Canyon Petroglyph – New Mexico

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