A British CEO has banned the use of internal email for employees of his company.

Whee...

This is a classic example of the conflicted nature of Western attitudes toward technology: it's great, except when it's bad. The way I use it should be the way you use it. (The CEO doesn't use email.) Technology is liberating, except when it's not. Suggesting alternative methods of using technology will never work, because users are stupid. Technology takes time to use, as opposed to speaking, which is not technological.

"Technology" does not mean "stuff on the computer." We need Walter Ong more now than ever, and he's dead. Dammit!

cbd.