One of my students was saying the other day that his grandmother reads his tweets. “But she doesn’t tweet back,” he continued, “she only answers by email,” he said, explaining that while his grandmother is willing to read a twitter feed, she insists on responding with a more old fashioned medium.
I told my student that one day, fifty years from now, he might have grandkids of his own. One of them might talk about how she sends messages to her grandfather through whatever is the latest form of communication (maybe something involving brainwaves and neural implants).
“But old granddad,” she might say, “just keeps responding the old fashioned way, with Twitter.”