Zink: No STDs, but other dangers in virtual life
In his novel “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture,” Douglas Coupland coins the term “ultra short-term nostalgia,” defined as the modern feeling of “homesickness for the extremely recent past.” That’s the sentiment I felt on Tuesday, immediately upon discovering the existence of sexually-transmitted-disease e-cards.
It is now possible to send digital greeting cards via e-mail anonymously to notify your romantic liaisons — or gullible, hard-partying friends — that you may have given them a venereal disease.
“Who? What? When? Where? It doesn’t matter. I got an STD,”...
"Your character can fly, but you can’t feel the wind on its face". Great line. Hopefully, in light of recent events, society will begin a swing back toward reality.