"...and I tell my students that’s what makes email such an incendiary form
of communication: all those dampening and texturing dimensions of the
communication go away, and so the communication becomes all the more
thin and brittle, and to try and get some of it back we start inserting
emoticons, and so on. In all this, the properly 'human' is only part of
the story; it’s nested in a larger, and in many ways nonhuman, set of
contexts and forces."
--"Is Humanism Really Humane?" by Lennard and Wolfe, The New York Times
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