“Our desire to outstrip “Time” has been fatal to more things than love….We have minimised and condensed our emotions…We have destroyed the memory of yesterday with the worries of tomorrow…We do not feel and enjoy; we assimilate and appropriate”.
Believe it or not the above quote was made by an editorialist in the London Star in 1901 when complaining about the rise of the telegram as a means of communication.
This commentary is even more appropriate to the level of communication technology available to us in 2010. It has been said that the average office worker sends and receives over 200 emails a day! That seems a little on the high side to me however there is no argument that much of our daily workplace communication is now done by e-mail. Continue reading