Tech Bits: Is Skype the Future?

As computers have become more powerful and taken ever greater roles in our daily lives, the way we have used them to communicate with others has grown and evolved. For many of us, we started out with email, and then as people began to spend more and more time in front of their computer, we shifted to instant messaging. Communication through text has disadvantages, however, and so numerous solutions have appeared to make the act of web-based communication more personal.