Message undeliverable . Alison Motluk. Globe and Mail (Mar 9)
"The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, by John Freeman, Scribner, 244 pages, $32.99"
Some figures on email just in case you didn't know that it overwhelms everyone.
"He also provides convincing data, in case you were in any doubt, that e-mail has invaded and changed our lives. The average office worker today sends and receives 200 e-mails a day, he reports, which takes up roughly 40 per cent of our working life. Both in and out of the office, that adds up to about 35 trillion messages a year, and it's growing. The bad news is that about 50 per cent of the time we misunderstand the tone of what we're receiving – that's 17.5 trillion misunderstandings – emoticons notwithstanding."
Posted by Gwen at March 10, 2010 11:10 AM