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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:07 AM
Original article: Is the Web helping us evolve?

Is clear communication evolving on the web?

Did someone say pretentious prose? This is a great topic but David Brin's primary objective, I think, is to impress rather than communicate. Had he written the whole piece in Latin it would have been more impressive and almost as informative for most of us. If Salon posts more writing like this in the future please accompany it with a cliff notes version.

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