Re: CONFESSIONS OF A CHEERFUL LIBERTARIAN By David Brin

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 17:25:52 MST


At 6:02pm +0930 12/6/00, Emlyn wrote:
>Hmm. Even given exposure to the enabling technology, I'd be surprised if
>very many people, especially techos, foresaw the incredible
>commercial/popular environment that the web would become, by say 1995.

Many of us old-timers were espousing that very thing on this very
list back in 1989! Many of us had been using global networks for
decades. We already knew the impact that global communications had
between colleges and branches of government. We just had to wait a
few decades before the public sector caught up.

-- 
Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>



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