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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (868)	9/12/1998 4:11:00 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 2025

One ex-hippie to another--amen.

To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (868)	9/12/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 2025

Yogi, you'll kinda like this idea by Motorola... Posted at 8:26 p.m. PDT Friday, September 11, 1998 Motorola to introduce new cable technology BY JON HEALEY Mercury News Staff Writer Motorola Inc. plans to announce a high-powered line of cable converter boxes today, hoping to prod the slow-moving U.S. cable industry into offering more sophisticated, interactive services. In particular, Motorola's technology combines the functions of a network computer, a high-speed modem, a DVD player, a game console and a home-communications traffic cop with the features of a cable converter box. It is one of the first, if not the first, such highly integrated devices to be ready for the market, although it is not likely to be the last. [snip] mercurycenter.com GM

To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (868)	9/12/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: Stitch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

Yogi, Folks; From the article in your excellent link: The mid-1990s, perhaps even 1995, may come to be viewed as the defining moment when society recognized the enormity of the changes taking place and began to reorient itself. The last time humans went through such a wrenching transition was during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th centuries. The agrarian economy was completely restructured, and social and political institutions transformed to fit the new realities. The trauma was severe: Peasants were driven off their fields and into factories. Industrialists became fabulously rich overnight. Rustic village life was replaced by an urban one. Political revolutions flared. Our transition will be every bit as brutal. Once-secure professionals will find their skills obsolete. Washington's government bureaucracies will see much of their power eroded. Cities will face accelerating population losses. From Carl Sagan in his last book: "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. " Something to ponder on this rainy Sunday of reading and musing. Thanks for the link. Best, Stitch