by Alfredo Lopez

Over the past couple of years, the on-line world has been over-run by an epidemic of "flattened communications" software and solutions designed mainly to get young people communicating (or actually buying stuff -- which is mainly what capitalism does).

Texting, all thoses "mini-websites" (like Facebook, etc.), the infernally named "twitter" and even newer and just emerging forms of communication present themselves to people as not only the equal of but superior to old stalwarts like email and the website.