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There are many, many good things about email.  First and foremost, it is quick, practically instant for all intents and purposes.  Yet, paradoxically, that is one of its drawbacks for me as well.    Yes, when wasps attacks - as they did this weekend, argh! - military trained friends can immediately email you a plan of counterattack, and yet I never feel quite so helpless as when a soldier emails from Iraq and says "I am ill.  I feel wretched."   The email is instant, but the practical response can't be.  Yeah, I can email back, but it takes a while for a parcel of Kleenex tissues, Vicks Vapo-rub and Lemsips to make its way over there.  By the time it reaches its destination, of course, the cold is a distant memory, the Lemsips are drunk in an emergency coffee-drought situation and I don't want to know what use the tissues are put to.

I think that as well as instant messaging we need instant transportation.   Captain James T. Kirk had the right idea with his transporters.  Beam the sniffle supplies up, Scotty!

Helen