I'm not doubting the effectiveness of the USPS - but their business model isn't sufficient to maintain themselves, let alone be economically competitive with FedEx/UPS. I knew, in a vague way, that the postal system can't be doing well now that email has become so mainstream, but that article really brought it home for me. I had no idea how serious their situation was, and not even the foggiest notion of how foreign systems worked in comparison. Shocking!

I've always been a little sickened by how much technology has a grip on the lives of my own and younger generations - imho there's an identified generational gap between my parents, myself (I'm 23), and pre-teens, marked by how intuitively we integrate technology into our daily routine. I find it a bit disturbing, honestly.

I have already pre-ordered Always On!! The prologue was available to read and it totally sold me - the author has a really engaging narrative style and his information, even just in the prologue, was pretty gripping. His book covers a lot of the topics that I've been wondering about, vague thoughts I've had about how technology is changing us so much on so many different levels, and I can't wait to see what interesting facts he's dug up about it all. From what I read about Alone Together (thanks for the link!) it looks to be the same way. I wonder if the Apple Bookstore has an iBook format....