Re: lisa&will's email/salinger life


Subject: Re: lisa&will's email/salinger life
From: Lisa M. Rabey (lisar@net-link.net)
Date: Mon Mar 10 1997 - 05:39:00 GMT


At 03:43 PM 3/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
>_life on the screen_ by sherry turkel and _being digital_ by nicholas
>negroponte are the "applications' I can use to uncode lisa's email
>thoughts--i'm
>with you--i prefer email living to most other forms--but then again, I was
>always a text-based guy with a love for keyboards...I spent today writing
>my friend, Warren French a long letter--he deplores my cyberspace and
>believes it "saps" other realms but I don't agree. I wish he could spend
>some time on bananafish--he's a hoot and a fine salinger critic--but if i
>ever get a conference together, he'd be key. Anyway, despite my
>hesitations, I have 3 conferences coming up chock filled with
>presentations on hypertext but a summer to look ahead to on hammock and
>writing a book. I'm still on the cusp, but it sounds like if I follow
>lisa, I'll get to where i'm going...will

heh, well, I think this is the first time anyone needed anything but a
dictionary to uncode what I said, so I will take is a compliment will :)

But, on the serious side, I think, watching the trend go with computers,
that we are truly becoming a digital age. Heck, you can even page ppl with
email and web sites, phone conversations and written letters are slowly
becoming obsolete.

And my handwriting, once praised in college, looks like chicken scratch :P

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