It is strange to think that one day in the not to distant future an E-mail sent by a famous person will be worth just as much as a letter written by a person of similar fame this is for two reasons, firstly an E-mail is not a physical thing in any common sense of the word and people still have a problem with the idea of something non physical having worth comparable to the physical, it is perhaps how the attitude to ideas and theories once was and it is also the reason why it was once felt that the soul was actually some sort of previously undiscovered organ of the body and also why the ancient Chinese believed that heaven was an island paradise in the west however with the growth on one hand of science and on the other the spiritualist movement these feelings mostly disappeared. Secondly, it is usually the case that the rarer something is the more worth it has and what’s more this piece of information is well infiltrated into the public consciousness, we write e-mails all the time therefore they have a worth in relation to that, the same was perhaps true of letters however eventually that method of communication was displaced and thus became a rarer thing a preserve of the richer or rather the better off with more time on their hands did they become more worthy because of there rarity or because of who writes them? In any case, in order for this to happen to e-mail they will have to be displaced by another more advanced method of communication. Considering the dumbing down of language, this will probably be something that involves less language not more I can however not quite think what this could possibly be I do however think that this dumbing down process will end up with our species coming full circle and re-developing our primordial senses and communicating primarily through body language and smell only we’ll be able to send smells and pieces of body language over long distances. However being an obsolete method of communication used only by the rich, important, interesting, powerful, and pretentious may not make it as an expensive item no matter what people think of the immaterial because e-mails are saved in so many different places and are almost impossible to get rid of entirely doing massive purges. So, there you go I’ve come to the conclusion that I was wrong.