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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (127210)	7/24/2005 12:25:06 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793743

Speaking of libraries, from the University of Southern Connecticut library via the local Monroe Library I got a copy of "Islands in the Click Stream" by Richard Thieme. It's a series of quite interesting essays on technology transforming society transforming technology. Don't know that book. How about a quick squib on the author and a bit longer squib on the argument. If the relations between technology and social change interest you, you might take a careful look at John Gray's review of Friedman's "flat" book. The one I just posted from the NY Review of Books. Gray considers Friedman a technological determinist, a label which, apparently, Friedman doesn't disagree with (damn preposition just keeps creeping to the end of sentences.) Gray is a thoughtful old line conservative political theorist, not a neo con, one who starts with a secular version of original sin.