From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 13:00:09 MST
Michael M. Butler wrote,
> It's going to be an arms race for some, and open arms for others. I
> think a sheaf of strategies and solutions, if not a spectrum, is
> healthy.
Good idea. I hope you don't keep your strategies private, but share them?
> More people should adopt technology more mindfully than they seem to, I
> think--but I don't know how to do that for anyone other than myself, and
> I don't have a perfect track record by any means.
So privacy issues are rather personal, and not to be distributed too
widely.
> Some people boggle to discover that many Plain Folk in Pennsylvania have
> cell phones. This is because they think the Amish are luddites, when
> they are not. They are, however, very selective about the technologies
> they adopt. More power to that, say I.
I saw a documentary on PBS about the Amish. They don't let their kids go
beyond the eighth grade, because it might tempt them to discard literal
belief in the Bible. (They believe the Earth is flat, because the Bible
mentions "the four corners of the Earth").
> I think secluded glens off the information superhighway are a fine idea,
> even if some of them have razor wire around them. If you can keep 'em.
Yeah, those are very secure places. I think they're called "prisons" and
"penitentiaries"
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
3M TA3
Information wanting to be free:
Here none think of wealth or fame,
All talk of right and wrong is quelled:
In autumn I rake the leaf-banked stream,
In spring attend the nightingale.
Who dares approach the lion's
Mountain cave? Cold, robust,
A Zen-person through and through,
I let the spring breeze enter at the gate.
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