A paeon to spam: The
- Cory Doctorow
- Uncategorized
- Nov 14, 2001
A paeon to spam:
The sheer number of people out there trying to sell me ink cartridges, chain letters and bogus university degrees — on an hourly basis — is starting to give me a kind of strange high. Remember those books about prosperity thinking? How the world is overflowing with digitally encoded cash, brilliant ideas, truckloads of freshly baked bread, sports bags filled with emeralds, whatever? Well, what could give a better sense of abundance and vastness and plenitude than masses of desperate, corny sales pitches delivered right to the desktop? He has only to log on and his in box shall be filled until it brimmeth over.