Communication

Text. Email. FaceTime. Whichever your prefer, there's no denying digital technology has communication covered.

One of the things that digital technology is very good at is efficiency. The forms of communication that we can access with digital technology are one thing if nothing else: fast.

If we went a week without digital technology, how would we communicate?

• Landline telephones
• Need to talk to someone quick? Landline telephones may not be as efficient as the cell phones we're used to, but they'll do the trick.
• Mail
• Mail may be somewhat slow, but it is great for communicating over long distances.
• Face to face conversations
  • No form of communication using digital technology can beat face to face conversation. You may have to go a little out of your way to accomplish it, but it is worth it.

"We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite.
We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent."
-Tom Hodgkinson