SNARFING

And other social tools. Cool. What do the dating pages use? Maybe we should use them as another model.

But then perhaps face-to-face contact is overrated. Perhaps the great success of the web is that we get to feel connected WITHOUT having to be bothered with all the bother of attempting productive relationships. Even if we participate in a Wiki, it's still a hit and run endeavor. We may collectively build a site, but no one's watching us when we lay in our individual bricks.

Wouldn't it be interesting if during the next few centuries we develop more and more ways of communicating faster over greater distances until someone has the novel idea of learning to really communicate one on one in the same room.