“But the initial choice to have email at all is to open a loop. The choice to open a particular email, though, constitutes entry into something more like static information. The problem is that the sender may have spring-loaded a whole lot of time and energy into that message, so that clicking on it is like opening a Pandora's box of data and responsibilities. A week of the sender's preparation can instantaneously unfold into our present.”
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