Thanks to my ability to intercept virtually anything that goes on in your Webosphere, I can view and interpret what laughable current events people are following. Which brings me to the point of today's transmission: Google Motion.
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
My first thoughts when I read this were, "Oh my, Humans can't do this with their minds yet?" But then I had an afterthought - you're still using keyboards? It is very interesting to me, and it seems to be a modern manifestation of your evolution. Not so long ago in the history of your planet, you invented the first tools. Ok, so they were mainly for killing and maiming opposing clans, but they were still tools. Today, that reliance on tools remains heavy, even if they are dressed up in clean white boxes and sold to people who think they need them. But the issue here is one of communication.
There are only a dozen or so creatures on this planet who must use tools to communicate and/or survive. I know of at least one species of bird that catches worms with a stick. Which I fully understand. But using a tool for basic communication? I guess, coming from a hive-mind civilization, this concept will forever escape me.
I digress.
Using motion to communicate is primal, feral, and a bit barbaric. In today's society, communication via gesture is usually reserved for moments of extreme emotion. People are mad, they display their middle fingers, people are enamored, they exchange saliva and grope each other. But nobody says "hello" by waving their arm around in a half-circle. People have long glorified themselves by claiming to be the only species on Earth to have developed a little thing called language. Now they're struggling to make it obsolete by resorting to silly gestures and some arm-flailing?
My conclave back home would not believe me if I told them.
End transmission.
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