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RE: Get over here, Junior, and tell us what this says.... (contest)
That letter might be a treasure in more than one way. For a moment I forgot about the jewellery box and thought of the article that wrote about letters lost and being delivered decades if not ages later. That time has passed. Letters, the last proof of people writing on paper or "skin" will fade away. In the near future, we might forget how to write because AI will take over and spell it out. It makes me sad. I wrote so many letters in my life during the past 50 years (if not more).
It's happening at an accelerated rate. Technology... When I was little there were no TV's. I would sit on the flood in front of the radio and listen to "Sparky" on a Saturday morning. The games we player were checkers and Monopoly. It's happening fast. they say just a few generations after "The Flood" (Noah's) people thought it was just a fable. It's a rocky ride for sure.
You know what? I liked listening to the radio. I can still here that voice of the story tellers and a program my grandmother listened to (Barend Barendse) . Later there was a program where a man read poetry. The listeners could send there written text and he would read it (in between some music) . Can be that program still exists it's called: Candleleight.
Most poetry was terrible but he could read it in a way that every shitty text sounded great (I can still copy his way of reading) which I might have found the most special part of that program.
I liked listening to those plays, it was different from TV but even watching TV is something I did over two decades ago. There are more and more people I hear saying they no longer watch so we are not the only ones.
The lack of letter, some real mail (not a bill) is missed. I hear my children say it as well. The letterbox (more the opening) in the frontdoor will soon be no longer a part of front doors. Bills are digital as well.
In some ways, Steemit... although embedded in tech and crypto... offers a kind of old fashioned way to communicate.