Randomly browsing around one day in October, I found a blog post entitled Lechistan 2150.
Apart from the Lechistan call-out (a name which I will always think of fondly due to a story I was told in grade school); the standard Eurabia stuff, which has been rebutted so many times surely I of all people don’t need to; and the mixed peoples note, which I can only applaud; we have:
The information revolution means that attempts to ban corrupting influences in the media are fairly pointless; those mobile phone-sized things have so much memory and power that it is as if you could carry all of today’s Internet in your pocket. But the availability of so much information, paradoxically, has led to many people paying much less attention to things electronic, and information from these sources is regarded rather as fast food, burgers etc. are treated today, i.e. insufficient, plastic, diversionary, dubious. The written word is the source of authority; calligraphy is once more a valued skill.
Is it going to happen? Whose opinion would you value more, your good real-life friend, or that of one of your 600 Facebook “friends” or 300 Twitter “followers”?
But will you think of a hand-written letter more than of an email?