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Re: fyi: Technorealism
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- Subject: Re: fyi: Technorealism
- From: ralf.stephan@fitug.de
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:59:19 +0100
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- In-Reply-To: <78HDfYWl8aB@diz.free.de>; from Karl Dietz on Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 02:54:00PM +0100
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> http://www.technorealism.org/overview.html
>
> 1. Technologies are not neutral.
Neutral with respect to what?
> 2. The Internet is revolutionary, but not Utopian.
Since Plato we know that for every Utopia there is a noble lie.
> 3. Government has an important role to play on the
> electronic frontier.
The frontier is in your mind.
> 4. Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
> 5. Wiring the schools will not savethem.
>From extinction?
> 6. Information wants to be protected.
Information wants to flow.
> 7. The public owns the airwaves; the public should
> benefit from their use.
Implementing a sophisticated standard is even harder than proposing one.
> 8. Understanding technology should be an essential
> component of global citizenship.
see 7.
ralf
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