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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (27109)	11/19/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

I was planning on flying somewhere for vacation this spring after I obtain some of my losses back. Maybe I will just sight see by viewing the net. The net is worth more than the airlines and takes me farther faster. Glenn, I know you were being sarcastic, but you bring up a good point. The internet will never deliver a "life-like" experience. The two are so dissimilar it's beyond the realm of reality to hope that the two will enter the same realm. A computer cannot, and nor will ever (IMO): 1) Deliver smells, such as one finds in a rose garden, or the earthy smell one might encounter in a backyard garden plot after a spring rain. 2) Deliver the sensations your body experiences at different levels of humidity, such as one experiences when stepping out of the airport after landing in West Palm Beach, FL. 3) Deliver the sensation on your body and hair that comes from being outside when a cooling summer breeze blows in from the ocean (or from whereever) on a warm Summer evening. 4) Deliver the feast for your eyes when you stroll along a crowded walking street in oldtown area of Stockholm (Gamla Stan). That is my single favorite place to spend one or two very long vacation days. I've been there twice. The internet could never deliver even a quarter of the experience one gets from actually being there. That is obvious to me, and probably also to most.