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Dr. Barrett Mosbacker, Publisher
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From the WSJ: OCTOBER 12, 2009
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.
In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a piece of the new world. And just as email did more than a decade ago, this shift promises to profoundly rewrite the way we communicate—in ways we can only begin to imagine.
We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we used to use the Internet—logging off and on, checking our messages in bursts. Now, we are always connected, whether we are sitting at a desk or on a mobile phone. The always-on connection, in turn, has created a host of new ways to communicate that are much faster than email, and more fun.
Why wait for a response to an email when you get a quicker answer over instant messaging? Continue Reading…
Nevertheless, I also share the conviction that technology, like many good things in our lives, can become an obsession and a cruel master. Any addiction, even to good things, is harmful and unbiblical whether it is sex, food, work, or technology.
The lowly status of the e-book may be about to change—and radically. David Weir, in a BNET (a business and management blog) 
