January 17th. Later.

It's hard to keep pace with ye olde technology. We decry it as passive communication, as moving us all to a cold, clinical place but we actually can't get enough. We send an e mail rather than make a phone call whenever there’s the option. We embrace any facility whereby we can avoid spontaneous conversation.

These things take hold because there is a massive appetite for them. If nobody wanted to communicate like this all these innovations would just fade away. Think of the three page text that took ten minutes to compose you invariably got recently when a fifteen second call would have got the same job done.

Despite what they might say people will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid talking to people with whom they are not closely acquainted. Friendship, like oil, has reached peak levels. Awkwardness and social ineptitude is where it's at. Just how the geeks who run everything now like it. Never let it be said.