"Three-fourths of [Italians] hesitate to access the Internet because they don't know how to use a computer". (Hard to believe... unless the Italian population is quite elderly). So someone interested in making digital info physical created the Phymail Box.I ruefully agree with the inventor that "the computer forces you to stay there because it offers you everything", but I'm not sure that having access to email anywhere I go is the solution. The upside of having even a PowerBook is that you can't sport it around in your pocket when you should be enjoying the world around you.
Another interesting tidbit: the Poste Italiane allows customers to compose an email on its website and have it delivered to the recipient like a paper letter.
Italians don't seem to mind wasting paper.
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