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To: Kurthend who wrote (224)	4/2/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: Yogi - Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

All, Interesting-- december.com Very useful-- december.com Excerpt: "This Web site is dedicated to serving the needs of researchers, students, teachers, and practitioners interested in the study of human communication via computers." irthrifty

To: Kurthend who wrote (224)	4/4/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

...and do not underestimate the lack of enthusiasm for technology among those four billion people: I have only been outside of North America once so my observations are not a good sample, but on a trip to Huahine, French Polynesia, I saw that most of the people seemed to be spending all their time outside, especially in the evening when everybody seemed to be playing soccer (or at least watching others play), a lot of kids were always out riding their bikes, and some were playing games with pebbles in the street. The kids in my town all seem to be hiding indoors all the time, presumably playing games on their N64's and PC's. I hope they are playing games, some are probably looking at porn dot com or whatever. Ten years from now the Internet may be considered to have been a fad of the '90s, and the functionality of PCs by that time may be in more specialized devices--and these devices will be the ones being hyped by the rich part of the industrialized world--"someday everybody will have a talking wrist-bot". Of course French Polynesia isn't exactly the third-world, I'd wager they play even more soccer and less Nintendo in the even less industrialized countries, of course they do. PC's and the internet are pretty useful tools, but I do not see everybody on the planet using them in twenty years. Whenever sombody says the internet represents a new paradime or whatever, I flinch. I remember getting quite a bit of information of bulletin board services before I got Navigator; sure there is even more info now, but a lot of it is crap. If I played soccer really well I probably would not be on SI right now...