BRAINMAIL

Email really IS a more PHYSICALLY-EFFICIENT method of communication...NOWADAYS.

It wasn't always that way... the laying (or stringing-up) of the communications cables themselves was often hazardous work beyond what MOST people would pursue for themselves, at least between "sensible" jobs.

But the ability to "neurally" connect ideas over vast distances IS the mechanism which a genuinely large-scale being might employ, or at least rely on, for His/Her/It's Survival.

Unless of course the being is Immortal.

And with little effort, I'm sure even a 12-year-old could prove that semaphores via TCP/IP are NOT the fibers intelligence of which immortal beings are created.

Even the most technologically-bereft of the world use ordinary Shortwave transmissions to communicate over such vast distances.

Coding and decoding is just a bit less graphical than the picture-rich (and glyph-rich) environments to which Western Techies are accustomed.

Yet, does the name Samuel Morse ring a bell?