Quick break from all the philosophy. Does
anyone know why text messaging has not taken off in America? In Britain or
Australia you can’t fall over without hitting someone sending text messages on
mobile phones, but here companies are still doing background
promotions to try to get people interested in the possibility of
text messaging. The effect is sort of like seeing an ad proclaiming how cool it
is to be able to use VCRs to watch movies in your own home, at any
time you want. America is like, so 20^th century sometimes.

Amusingly, the ATT ad promoting messaging features
someone sending a message using correctly spelled words, and almost a
syntactically correct sentence. They really haven’t caught the txt zitgst.