By David Baker

The comedian Tracy Morgan once observed that we “spend too much of our lives on email,” and, as a result, he argued, “we’re losing our communication skills.” That’s hardly a novel claim, but when you consider the fact that we send 269 billion emails each day — 35 emails for each person on Earth — one can’t overlook the link between email volume and the feeling that there’s plenty of room to improve the quality of the conversation…