Microspeak: non-virtual intercourse
facemail Technologically backward means of communication, clearly inferior to voicemail or e-mail. Involves actually walking to someone's office and speaking to him or her face to face. Considered highly inefficient and declassé. touch skin Same basic meaning as facemail or face time. A meeting arranged to counter the austerity of communicating in cyberspace. "We flew the guy to Redmond just so we could touch skin". © Ken Barnes	Cyberspace and virtual communities will arguably lead to self-propelled, self-sufficient and perhaps self-reproducing human individuals... Or will they?

Microspeak: non-virtual intercourse

facemail: Technologically backward means of communication, clearly inferior to voicemail or e-mail. Involves actually walking to someone's office and speaking to him or her face to face. Considered highly inefficient and declassé.
touch skin: Same basic meaning as facemail or face time. A meeting arranged to counter the austerity of communicating in cyberspace. "We flew the guy to Redmond just so we could touch skin".

Cyberspace and virtual communities will arguably lead to self-propelled, self-sufficient and perhaps self-reproducing human individuals... Or will they?

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