I was watching a documentary on Harry Truman and one of the sources of the show had to do with letters he wrote to Bess and letters she wrote to him. It is interesting that we have become so technologically advanced (like this blog) that we do not write letters anymore. We have dug up stone carvings from people thousands of years ago and read their mail. Boxes fill homes with letters of our grandparents and parents and we cherish each one. In fifty years what will our children have to read from us? A text message ... a twitter ... a facebook ... a blog ... an email? We are creating a vacum in history where tomorrow there will be nothing to read from yesterday. All we will have are pieces of plastice and metal that no longer work and all the information we have on them is useless because we can't plug them in or read them. We really do believe that our world will always have these things at the ready and our technology will always allow us to do what we do today. Kindle is a good idea but a 100 year old Kindle is useless. Give me a book any day and I will be able to read it any day ... even 100 years from now. Maybe we should spend some time writting letters to our loved ones so they can have something more to cherish than an electronic note lost in the internet mist.
kent
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