Classic link from Clay at Many to Many who quotes Mike Goodwin on video vs. text (from 1994... just as I was discovering the web):
"Wake up, online belletrists everywhere - the Golden Age is already here, and flames are the proof. The problem is not that ASCII is too restricted a medium - the problem, if anything, is that text says too much, and that the medium is too intimate! Flames are the friction born of minds rubbing too closely together."
Absolutely! I used to argue that our words convey less than 50% of what we mean, that online communication is quite obviously inferior to f2f.
It's not, it's not even comparable, in depths (archives) and breadth (links) and communication (community) these simple characters wipe the floor with any audio visual solutions you may have... including meeting someone face to face. It's totally different, one is not better than the other, they afford totally different forms of communication... (the printing press was the catalyst for written language.... not the revolution).
And hey, there's a truth and an immediacy and a bareness in text that goes beyond anything we could ever achieve f2f and you can quote me... and carry on quoting me cos what I write will always be here!
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