If you want to write an extensive email on your Crackberry in public, turn the bloody key press beeping off, please.

If you consider that we've had some semblance of long distance, non-line-of-sight, real time communication for only 200 of the past 200 thousand years of our existence as a species, is it really that bad?

Why not enjoy all those clicks, beeps, rings, and audio clips for what they are: the music heralding our arrival as a world civilization?

Good point.I'll put my headphones back on, then.

fuck that

(re civilization &c)

Awww? I thought that was good stuff.

Civilisation? You must be joking, surely?

Nnn-no?

the game was okay, but the real thing is crap

I love the game too.

As to the real kind, not all of them were violent expansionists.

Anyway, I'm taking about a possible emerging world culture and civilization. Doesn't it seem that, as people in disparate locations talk to each other more and more, we're more likely to come to consensus on things like human rights, labor practices, the evils of reality TV, environmental laws, and health care?

There's certainly room for improvement.