@JohnBrady “You think this machine’s your friend, but it’s not.”. A grimly amusing revisit to the cutesy Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan rom-com “You’ve Got Mail,” arguing that it’s a dark, Cassandra-like prophecy of the destruction of our society by electronic media. Now I almost want to re-watch the movie.

@miljko I noted that in the 1998 world of the movie, people sneak off to their computers to check their email, and they read newspapers. The iPhone was 10 years away, and if I remember rightly mobile phones of any kind weren’t much of a thing.