don’t sign me up just yet

To understand why human interaction counts so much more than email we don’t have to invoke some grand or inexplicable cosmic phenomenon. It can be explained with simple numbers. When you hang out with someone you may spend two or three hours with that person. The amount of information transmitted in that time through verbal, visual and other means would be enough to fill up five hard drives. Seriously. When they can make an MP3 for smells, sign me up for second life.