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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Articles About Internet in Mass Media (Was Internet (Globe article))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.190901.25444@osf.org>
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- Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:09:01 GMT
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- richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >Whilst visiting family over the Christmas weekend, I caught to my
- >bemusement a human-interest article in the _Washington Post_ about how
- >grandparents are using Internet to keep in touch with far-flung
- >grandchildren via email.
-
- My son, rbrooks1@cc.swarthmore.edu, and I already correspond almost daily,
- btw.
-
- >As I looked across the table at my own grandparents, I pondered the
- >following: even with this wonderful technology, will grandchildren
- >every really *write back* to their elders as often as it's wanted?
-
- Of course not. But I'm sure they will write more often than they do now.
- Currently people either use the phone or ignore their elders, resulting in
- a society much worse documented than, say, the Victorians, who often wrote
- to each other twice a day. At least we now have the chance of archiving
- family correspondence.
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