"Slowness, in this age of constant connectivity, is its own kind of value. Most of our current communications technologies — the phone call, the text message, the tweet — drive against the qualities that hundreds of years of letter-writing have represented: the thoughtful, the deliberate, the unrequited. The text-and-tweet are insistent, and their insistence is implicit; they expect their replies right away. And they are fair in that expectation, because as technologies they are, at their core, about talking rather than text: They’re conversational, promoting not only the intimacy, but also the immediacy, of speech."

- ‘The Future of Email’ … Looks a Lot Like Twitter  (via courtenaybird)

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Source: The Atlantic
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