From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 22:02:11 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 06:34 pm, Mark Walker wrote:
>
>> I thought the point of PR was not to get acceptance of the technology,
>> which
>> as you say may come in any event, but to make sure the right people do
>> the
>> right things with technology.
>
>
> Then it shouldn't be "PR" directed at the general public. If we want to
> steer technology, we need to be lobbying business and maybe government
> to help shape their future vision. But this takes money, credentials,
> and real industry access. Websites and sound-bites aren't going to do
> it. It would take a major research and consulting think-tank organization.
>
A new vision of what is possible, of what life can offer, of
what people can and should consider reasonable to expect, must
be formulated and dispersed to the people. Business runs on
rules of its own that have largely degenerated to maximum
profits for the stock holders at all costs. Politicians run on
getting reelected at all costs. It is only the people and what
they expect out of both that offer real room for change. It
doesn't take money or credentials or industrial access. It
takes moving the hearts and shaping the dreams of human beings.
Simply attempting to play the old power camp within the existing
rules is immediately doomed to failure.
- samantha
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