New E-Mail Will Be Personalized. Its promoters think this arrangement to attach animated faces to email to convey the emotion of the writer will be the next “killer app”, even though it’s little better — or perhaps less effective — than those silly little “emoticons” no one’s used for years. The developers of this system trumpet that it will fulfill the potential of the Internet, and they’re right — it may very well complete the move to the complete banality of e-communication! Oh, and let’s not forget its potential applicability to e-commerce, via the creation of “virtual sales clerks… to answer all your questions and take your orders”. Actually, I wish that I had the capacity to attach an animated face to this message right now, just this once — if it could adequately convey disdain.