Hotmail. Facebook. My Space. Twitter. It's amazing Canada Post carriers even have anything in their bags anymore.
Since the Internet opened the cyberspace highway, people have been getting onboard several different communication vehicles.
How we communicate with friends and relatives has changed dramatically. How many people know the price of a stamp for a domestic letter these days?
You can even receive most of your bills and bank statements electronically. The once much-anticipated arrival of the mailcarrier now seems anti-climactic as he or she arrives bearing mass mailouts from political parties or advertising coupons.
And this is all well and good - until there's a power outage or your computer decides it has exceeded its life expectancy. A power outage leaves you all alone, or at least, alienated from friends and family not in the house with you at the time. But a dead computer cuts you off from much more, depending on your dependancy.
Technology is marvellous. It's truly amazing how much the Internet shrank the world we live in. But it has also created a dependancy and need for more power, be it a plug in for a computer or batteries for a hand-held device.
And it has certainly cost society a lot of social graces.
What's in those mailbags today?
- Published on August 10th, 2009
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Staff ~ The Moose Jaw Times Herald
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