Since everyone knows that technologies often don't work out the way we first expect them to, I was curious to see if the current enthusiasm for all manner of social-networking communications tools had any historical precedent.
Michael Steel led me onto the cushy campaign bus, appointed with deep vinyl seats emblazoned with the Romney-Ryan insignia, a wood-paneled kitchen, a living room in back and all manner of laptops, television and other communications gadgets.
Cyberbullying, online pornography, privacy and anonymity, sexting, greater influence of an unhealthy popular culture, so-called multitasking, commercialism, the "quantification" of friends, shallowness of communications and just plain bad manners.
Earlier this afternoon, Freedom Partners Executivee Vice President of Communications James Davis approached this reporter in a passive aggressive manner offering answers to questions on their pet issues of criminal justice reform and ending corporate welfare.
"In the past, women were likely to view good manners as an indication of weakness in a man," said Raymond Gozzi Jr., an associate professor of communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y.
"Two way communications via email is preferable so that the trail of communications is documented".
(Participant 3, CBO) "Two way communications via email is preferable so that the trail of communications is documented".
They do, though, stop buildings and aeroplanes from suffering the fate, as well as helping predict weather, model various other physical phenomena, search for oil or gas reserves, encrypt and decrypt communications and simulate all manner of processes.
"So much of communications is once removed that it adds a layer of distance and anonymity that can only worsen manners".
