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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum

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From: Frank A. Coluccio1/22/2007 5:00:22 PM
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"There can be no gainsaying about the fact that a great revolution is taking place in the world today…That is, a technological revolution with the impact of automation and cybernation…Modern man through scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance. Through our genius we have made this world a neighborhood. And yet we — we have not yet had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this."

- Martin Luther King Jr., in one of his last speeches, four days before he died in 1968.

In retrospect, Martin Luther King Jr.'s framing of those ideas a year before the original Internet was conceived, never mind the Internet that we know today, was remarkably prescient, imo, and, at the same time, echoed a notion that's been stated numerous times in history. The quotation above is an abstract from:

"Your Guide to the Digital Divide," by Mark Glaser:
pbs.org

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