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Mohammad Khan's avatar

My friend and I tried sending just handwritten lettes to each other to see what it was like.

We did that for half a year and it was interesting. Because of the delay, we had to make sure to our ideas and writing clear the first time or else you'd waste weeks for clarification.

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Baxter Blackwood's avatar

Dude that's so cool that you actually did that! I love it. What else did you learn from this experiment?

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Mohammad Khan's avatar

Made up myself.

Wanted to give it a shot

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Jeremy Côté's avatar

I enjoyed reading this Baxter! I wrote about the history of communication between early Canada and Europe, and it was even worse than what you describe. They couldn’t send letters for a huge chunk of the year because of the ice blocking boats! It made me appreciate just how much we’ve reduced the delay in communicating.

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Baxter Blackwood's avatar

Woah, thanks for sharing that Jeremy! Where did you write this? Would love to read.

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Baxter Blackwood's avatar

Thanks man! Will check it out. Saw the Thoreau reference, love it. If you're interested in this sort of stuff with technology & communications, I'm sure you'd absolutely love Marshall McLuhan's stuff. He will break your brain but change how you see the entire world.

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Jeremy Côté's avatar

I've seen McLuhan's name pop up many times in my reading, but I've never checked out the primary sources. Will do!

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Baxter Blackwood's avatar

Awesome man. Please don't hesitate to DM me for more tips on reading McLuhan. His seminal work is Understanding Media, and it's a truly great book. I would start there before reading his other stuff. I'll be writing more about him in the future though!

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