At 08:14 AM 11/7/98 EST, GBurch1@aol.com wrote:
I've finally read your posting carefully, Greg, and I do appreciate the
sentiment that you and Spike express. I think, however, that many of the
postings on this thread have been based upon the assumption that this
particular culture of women in Afghanistan are illiterate and largely
ignorant of their own rights. This is, unfortunately, not the case. A
significant portion of these woman are highly educated, they
I have trouble envisioning how a memetic bomb or plant can alter the
situation. Who would you aim it at? The women are already fully educated
as to the direness of their own plight. They have, at great risk,
>This is something I've been thinking about for a long time. How do we help
>people like women in Afghanistan, or peasants in Indonesia, or all of the rest
>of the folks who are cut off from the information revolution? I've envisioned
>a technology that could help, something I call a "Brain Seed".
Kathryn Aegis