It would have its attractions.
Entertainment, enjoyment and information, and even reading:
I recently had a retreat from RFF and surfing the web generally. I even opened up War and Peace and read a couple of hundred pages over several nights. War maybe, and peace definitely. I am reading a marvellous book called Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein, rejoicing in old age and simply sitting, or talking and not being in a rush anywhere, the whole examination looking to the question of how to live one's life.
Internet convenience with transactions:
I just payed a whole lot of bills online in a very short time. Without that, I would have gone to the Post Office this morning and talked with the nice man there and paid the bills by cheque and had not only a more certain receipt date, but also a later date for my money to be taken from my account, maybe.
Email, accursed email:
I have an email inbox with over 12,000 unopened emails. I try to run the unopened fraction at 33% or more. I won't read them so why open them? I also don't file them. No point. Sometimes I delete a few. Every now and then I just deposit the whole inbox in a new folder called something like Archive #456 and probably never revisit it. Anything I need can be found on my many Macs with Spotlight, making filing pointless. I don't want my life and every day of it directed by someone else. How about those meeting proposals with multiple reply-all responses and all the out of office responses to that. Let them all go by and most will culminate in a message that the meeting proposed is now cancelled as not enough members etc etc.
Monday, progress day (still in the fight against email):
Mondays I do my own work and don't respond to emails. (I also don't have a secretary on Mondays so can't be reached by phone either.) When I get near retirement, and maybe serially before then, I will keep retiring email addresses and opening new ones to a smaller and smaller network, eventually, hopefully, abandoning email altogether.
We live in a great age no doubt, but it is important to learn or remember how to live.
