Remember when email and the internet was going to reduce the amount of paperwork in our lives? Gmail, my email provider, has just announced it will be chopping down more forests than ever as part of its latest service package.
You can have them mail you hard copies of all your emails.
It doesn’t make any sense to me. Why not print them out yourself? No, they are going to print them for you, package them, and mail them to your doorstep. This will add lots of fuel use to the already wasteful process.
Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?
I guess when your mission statement is to organize the world’s content, you
will try anything once. We’ll see how long this lasts.
Comment by K — April 2, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
Oh wait! It was an April Fool’s Day joke! Check it out:
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl<mpl=postaf_ca_tlsosm_t<mplcache=2
I’m frightened at how believable I thought that was!!
Comment by K — April 2, 2007 @ 5:06 pm