Less of a post than a half-thought, but I’ve not written for so long I felt I should post it.

Today I got totally blindsided by someone who said “address” when they meant “email address”. I was confused for a moment, since a postal address made no sense in the context.

Is it just me who still fills in “postal” if they hear “address” without a qualifier? I suppose it makes sense for “address” to mean email now but it’s still odd to contemplate, like it’s a stone’s throw away from pod babies with silicon-augmented brains who piss designer drugs.

It actually strikes me as strange that I still default to thinking like that. I have a whole bunch of addresses – Skype, websites, MSN, AIM and other acronyms. It’s months since I sent documents through the postal service, whole years since sending an actual letter; I would go so far as to say that physical mail is something of a novelty. Hell, writing an email longer than a couple of sentences is a novelty outside of work. And yet here I am, still thinking of the internet as some strange new thing that might get turned off tomorrow, once everyone’s bored with it.

Welcome to the future. Call me.