Word: postcarded
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...teenager finds a postcard with hundreds of people at a beach. She waves it over her head and races toward the cockpit, ignoring the flight attendant who asks her to slow down. People chuckle and briefcases and wallets close all over the plane...
...captain comes back on the intercom to lay out a few clarifications and rules: it must be a real picture, not a postcard, and the winner must be over 21 years...
...whoa be it for anyone to think that e-mail itself is a private medium. The popular metaphor is to think of communication by e-mail as akin to communication by postcard. That is, as an e-mail message is sent across the country, and anybody with enough technical prowess can pick it up, read it and copy it. (Interestingly enough, however, the nature of the Internet protocol makes it virtually impossible for someone along the way to prevent the message from reaching its destination...
...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...postcard and -- poof! -- you are ready to write E-mail. Drop it in the Out box and -- presto! -- it's as good as sent. Check stock quotes, send faxes, review your phone messages. With this book-size device, Sony has quietly done what Apple's Newton conspicuously failed to do: made a "personal digital assistant" that pleases its boss. The whizzy interface, ironically, was built by folks from the original Macintosh design team...