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THE QUESTION
E-mail: Blessing or Curse?
E-mail: Blessing or Curse?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on March 12, 2008 5:56 AM
FROM THE PANEL
Cain and Abel Both Used E-mail
What makes E-mail such a vehicle for good and evil, and on some days I think for more evil than good, is that it removes the presence of the other to a distance.
Posted by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, on March 13, 2008 9:30 AM
E-mail Morality
It seems that many people say things in E-mail they would never hand write or say to someone face to face, largely due to this anonymity.
Posted by Pamela K. Taylor, on March 13, 2008 8:02 AM
The Scourge of E-mail
Life was fast enough before E-mail and now it has just got to the point when we can't move away from the screen to see anyone or enjoy nature and the family.
Posted by Arun Gandhi, on March 13, 2008 7:01 AM
New Tech, Old Issue
I bet people have asked this question about everything since they discovered pigeons could carry messages.
Posted by Nicholas T. Wright, on March 13, 2008 6:18 AM
A Degree of Separation
The wonders of the World Wide Web and of E-mail provide a marvelous technology for almost instant transfer of vast amounts of information. But they also constitute an additional powerful buffer, allowing us to be in touch and not touch.
Posted by James Anderson, on March 13, 2008 4:26 AM
The Worries and Wonders of Technology
I despise spam and the misuses of the internet in blogs which bring out the worst in the worst, but I celebrate the ways friends greet friends, the distant sustain relations, and the hopers spread hope to the disappointed.
Posted by Martin Marty, on March 12, 2008 8:29 AM
It's A Tool, Stupid!
I have no idea what this question has to do with faith, except that everything involving computers has become a form of faith in our society.
Posted by Susan Jacoby, on March 12, 2008 7:14 AM
The Devil is in the E-mails?
At the most mystical level, the Internet is God talking to himself through technology at the speed of light. Not every transmission is obviously divine, but it's not content that I am referring to.
Posted by Deepak Chopra, on March 12, 2008 6:07 AM
You've Got Mail and a Life
E-mail is only really bad if it stops us talking face to face, if we believe technologies can take the place of people engaging with other people.
Posted by Julia Neuberger, on March 12, 2008 5:30 AM
Asked and Answered by Email
Anything that saves time and postage, which is going up again, is a blessing. The curse, of course, is that you are never out of touch.
Posted by Cal Thomas, on March 11, 2008 3:16 PM
Freedom in Information
So generally, the Internet is helping Christians, at least, share their message throughout hitherto unreached lands.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on March 11, 2008 11:06 AM
FEATURED COMMENTS
Tonio: I admit I'm more comfortable with written communication than with oral communication. In person or on the phone, I tend to talk at people ra...
Friend that trust a friends advice: My friend David hates e-mail. He says that it replaces the bond that occurs with a personal telephone call or face to face visit.
At first ...
Concerned The Christian Now Liberated: Great for the consumer!! A disaster for the US Postal Service.
But since e-mail is a subtechnology of the Internet, the question should ha...
