Your email has been returned due to insufficient voltage.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Cisco's goal is to bring the Internet revolution to as many people as possible, and our new wireless technology and partners will play a key role.

Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making process. Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990S had the flavor of personhood. MySpace preserved some of that flavor, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities, while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely.

If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People will accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other form. It is utterly strange to hear my many old friends in the world of digital culture claim to be the true sons of the Renaissance without realizing that using computers to reduce individual expression is a primitive, retrograde activity, no matter how sophisticated your tools are.

Internet mail headers are not unlike giblets.