Think of the bandwidth we save, mate! :>)

Right -- the cyberspace connectivity is not the source of the problem. The problem is the UART<==>CPU bus in each of us. By which I mean that we are geared in our thinking to an organic pace, our vocabularies have built up over centuries to reflect our comfortable seats deep inside meatspace, our training is in sizing things up through our skulls, and all of these ancient traidtions are getting rocked by a world view in which you can look out a window ten thousand miles away to the West while listening to live mnusic being broadcast from some dive in the bowels of Jersey. It is mindboggling, but only because we haven't re-framed our minds very well just yet. The best qualities of human communication -- insight, the touching of minds, the sense of affinity, the live pulse of real thought going on between two viewpoints -- all that gets lost because of the torque caused by this amazing ramp up in speed and space.

Let us hope we can make the transition before our virtues are all drowned by high-quantity barbarianisms.

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