04-05-2011, 04:52 AM
(04-05-2011, 04:17 AM)Gads Wrote: Nice post JonO
For my money, you are 100% on the mark. It's nice to talk about the past from time to time, but surely it is time to accept the Internet has replaced the postal system and lets start talking about the exciting times ahead of us.
I'm certainly not aware that anything precludes discussions of either the Internet and its capabilities for acting as a conduit or medium for gaming, or the exciting times ahead of you, Sean.
I would not agree, however, that the Internet has replaced the postal system. If that were the case, then I could get rid of my mailbox at the end of my front yard. The Internet and the postal service co-exist, side by side. I will likely be long dead and buried, before the postal service fades into non-existence. Furthermore, de-monopolizing the postal service could well re-energize it. Until and if that happens, we simply won't know, for sure. The Internet isn't going away, to be certain, but neither is the postal service, anytime soon.