I'm about to write my next Wired column. I've decided it's going to be about the effect of information addiction on the life of couples. And I'd like your help, because I don't want it just to be me going on about me. But naturally it starts with me, what I've observed in my own life. Here's a photo of me and my then-girlfriend (she's now happily
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I speak *to* myself quite a lot.
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would be even funnier if people sitting opposite each other each had a webcam and chatted that way.
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What really sucks is when you're both infomaniacs and there's only one computer...
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I've just realized that you can know about some people's life from the typology of noises you hear at their house (as well as from what they have at the fridge).
I have realized too that I had not written a word in English for ages!
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- It's a big house. I need information, she's in the office, I'm upstairs. Yelling is out if the kids are asleep. I could walk downstairs and ask, but there is this communication channel, something like those home intercoms that seemed to be the rage in the 70s.
- I use it to transmit information - a URL, a pic, whatever is too dense to be conveyed verbally.
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