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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4432)	6/7/2001 5:49:06 AM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<The internet zygote is the precursor to the biggest change on planet earth in human history. It's actually the biggest change on earth since DNA first formed billions of years ago, but I prefer to understate things. > WOW! Bigger than electicity, the internal combustion engine, railoads, or telephone?? Actually, if goods and people [like beaming on startrek] were possible, I think you might be right... alas FED EX still has to deliver the hardgoods. <The industrial revolution was a trivial joke compared with the internet and what it's going to do to the world. People have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.> People may indeed by tossing babies out... 2 questions: 1.) Can you give a brief synopsis of the type of changes you see that support your claim that the internet is bigger than the internal combustion engine or electricity for example??? For instance, I see that the internet shopping has wiped out catelogue shopping over the phone since I can now see them online [sadly someone should tell the catelogue companies this and I keep getting the damn things in the mail] and order without talking to anyone... You must be seeing that retail stores will be closing en masse at the VERY LEAST to support such a claim... what else??? Can you also include past examples like the 20's and 30's where productivity in the farm sector soared as the internal combusion engine [Combines, Tractors, etc.] layed waste to millions of farm jobs sending workers packing to the cities and soup lines????? DAK

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4432)	6/7/2001 11:00:15 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I think you are overstating the importance of the Internet - it's only important to human beings, and no more important than the development of memory and forethought, the development of the ego, the development of the superego, the development of language, the development of agriculture, the development of complex civilizations with cities and international commerce, the development of writing, perhaps not even the development of the printing press, although I think maybe it's about equal in importance to the printing press. I think of it as nothing more than the convergence of the printing press, radio, television, the telephone, the telegraph, and libraries, from the physical world to the digital world. It's just a medium of communication taking advantage of how cheap storage is for digital information, and how easy that information is to transmit. Libraries never make money.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4432)	6/7/2001 2:17:33 PM
From: David R	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

RE: . Waste is vastly reduced. What planet ar you from? I just wasted several minutes reading your post, and the chain of responses. And if that wasn't enough, I wasted several more minutes writing this reply. Information resources are simply staggering. Yup. Exactly what I think, when I get 100,000 hits on a search. Unfortunately, the Internet information ocean is a billion miles wide, and one quarter inch deep. Where else would your silly bantering, and my equally silly response qualify as "information"