To: David Eddy who wrote (13483 ) 1/3/1999 8:46:00 PM From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell Read Replies (5) | Respond to
Hah! Loved that site (http://www.duh-2000.com). My favorite was:Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Commentator Rex Murphy: "We are headed, in a matter of mere months, for the information ice age. The machines are going to freeze and everything that they run -- which is everything that runs, will freeze with them. There is nothing in the modern world, from cars to airplanes to hair dryers to TV sets; from Internet accounts to video games, nuclear defense systems to voice mail; from your Bay card to little Johnny's academic standing since grade two; from Revenue Canada to the local gas station, that doesn't owe its proper functioning and record to some computer chip. ... Come the year 2000, when we're all sitting in the dark and huddled around a million living room camp fires, writing messages to one another on paper with $50 pencils and using $3,000 laptops to block out the draughts, $80-billion Bill and the other princelings of Silicon Valley should have been made to pay for what their hucksterism and hubris have cost us."
