The Question: E-mail: Blessing or Curse?

Depending on what one's concept of progress is, E-mail can be a blessing or a curse. Although I am guilty of using E-mail more than snail mail I think it is a curse because it has made life faster when we need to slow down and enjoy the beauty of nature and living. 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. We have no time to cultivate relationships or interact with human beings (except snipe at each other on email) and this form of isolationism only leads to more violence in human societies. There is also the other aspect. Future scholars will find no written records to piece together the history of this period. We don't write much in E-mail and we don't save them as we did letters which provided material and color to historians. E-mail has made communications faster and has ended up in more work, work, work!!