Re: Inescapably Connected: Life in the Wireless Age (James Gleick)

From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@btinternet.com)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 10:25:07 MDT


Emlyn wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/magazine/22CONNECTIVITY.html

> This article is worth a read... a rambling magazine piece.

Urgh. I was falling asleep by the third page. Everything on
the Web is *at least* 6 pages long and goes off on every
tangent imaginable. It was fun at first, now it's just
annoying. I know the above is from a print magazine but my
point is: due to overexposure to long, rambling articles, I
can no longer stomach anything more than a few paragraphs no
matter what the origin. On the subject in question, I find
myself becoming increasingly *less* wired. I check fewer web
pages, read less email, and ignore usenet and IRC more
militantly than I did a year ago. As far as I can tell, the
whole thing is rapidly spiralling into entropy. In the future
I think we'll all pay professional writers for concisely
written articles printed on glossy high-contrast wood pulp.

BM



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