“If the bigshot at Google was no longer capitalizing ‘google,’ could the end of civilization be that far behind?…” blogs the Con Man. “A funny thing happened on the way to written anarchy. My emails started to grow truncated, abortive. For years I had prided myself on watching the typos and ending with a spiffy salutation to my emails. All of that has gone out the window. It’s all I can do now to manage a period at the end of a one-sentence email. If you’re in this world you know what I’m talking about, and if you know what it all means please let me know. The best I can do is to say truncation says something about what we are becoming and what we are destined to become, with substance giving way to speed faster than fresh wheels on the autobahn. If we can eliminate whole words and then excise punctuation, will we not reach a point where you need GPS to find out what anything means? Don’t u c?”