Re: Newsweek 2/27 - Cliff Stoll - Curmudegeon of Cyberspace
Dan Lynch <dlynch@zdexpos.com> Thu, 02 March 1995 17:39 UTC
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To: Susan Estrada <sestrada@aldea.com>, "Vinton G. Cerf" <0001050002@mcimail.com>, iab <iab@isi.edu>, iesg <iesg@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>, isoc-advisory-officers <isoc-advisory-officers@linus.isoc.org>, isoc trustees <isoc-trustees@linus.isoc.org>
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From: Dan Lynch <dlynch@zdexpos.com>
Subject: Re: Newsweek 2/27 - Cliff Stoll - Curmudegeon of Cyberspace
In a big parade even the elephant pooper scooper gets attention. Dan At 3:33 PM 3/1/95 -0800, Susan Estrada wrote: >>From Publishers Weekly, January 16 > >Collision on the Superhighway > >Astronomer Cliff Stoll takes more than a skeptical look at the information >superhighway in "Silicon Snake Oil" (Doubleday, Apr.). Striking out >against the Internet, which he calls an alluring "distraction from reality" >that works against literacy, isolates people from one another and cheapens >the meaning of actual experience, he tells us that, though "the Internet >beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this >nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth" -- strong words from the >man who wrote "The Cuckoo's Egg", about the awesome power of computer >networking. Hoping to keep the lid on the book until the April pub date, >Doubleday has dispensed with advanced galleys and is launching the title >with Stoll's appearance on Prime Time Live and Good Morning America. > > >************************************************* >Aldea Communications, Inc. | info@aldea.com | 1-619-929-1100 > >Home of NetPages(tm) - real yellow pages for the Internet. >Download NetPages from the following sites: >Santa Cruz Operation - Number 1 Unix Servers > ftp to ftp.sco.com > in the NetPages directory (case sensitive) >AT&T Jens - Japanese Internet Service Provider > ftp to ftp.spin.ad.jp (165.76.8.4) > pub/doc/NetPages >CompuServe's Internet Forum > >"Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: >You know what you are doing but nobody else does." Ed Howe
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