E-mail has been an amazing success. We kid about it being outdated now. But I just had to explain to a 18 y.o. how to mail a letter using snail-mail. Yes, you have to go to the post office to buy stamps and an envelope. Sure, you can Uber there. Put your name and address on the top left. The recipient name and address in the middle. That knowledge was universal 20 years ago. Now it’s used only slightly more than cursive.
In 40 years we’ve gone from snail mail being the way you handled everything to present-day discussions of ‘maybe we no longer need a postal service?’.
That is an amazing level of progress for a nation that still can’t figure out if vaccines are a good idea.
Looking back, it’s almost incredible how much hope there was when these things started.
E-mail has been an amazing success. We kid about it being outdated now. But I just had to explain to a 18 y.o. how to mail a letter using snail-mail. Yes, you have to go to the post office to buy stamps and an envelope. Sure, you can Uber there. Put your name and address on the top left. The recipient name and address in the middle. That knowledge was universal 20 years ago. Now it’s used only slightly more than cursive.
In 40 years we’ve gone from snail mail being the way you handled everything to present-day discussions of ‘maybe we no longer need a postal service?’.
That is an amazing level of progress for a nation that still can’t figure out if vaccines are a good idea.
It was not misplaced