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Originally Posted by pshrynk
The internet also allows for a broader range of communications, such as VOIP telephones that further erode barriers to world community.
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Yes, VOIP that ties telephony, and all of its new iterations (texting, PTT, GPS, etc), into web communications. It adds yet another communications dimension into the mix, a sort of parallel dimension, creating two adjacent 3-dimensional spaces existing simultaneously.
Hmm... as Dr. Wood pointed out, communications tends to expand into more hands, and spread to include more users, and as it does, it changes. What will happen if everybody can create communications of their own? Will it ultimately all break down into 6 billion languages, all uninterpretable from each other?...
(What's that? oh... yes, here's a twenty... that's no whip on the frapp, please. Do you have wet-naps? Thanks...)