On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 08:15 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert J. Chassell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 6:18 AM > Subject: RE: magic formula > > > > My belief is that in the last generation, large US capitalistic > > organizations have favored more feudalistic governance, inequality, > > and technological hindrance than before. > > > > On the subject of technological hindrance, can you think of any > examples?
I won't speak for Robert, but offhand I would nominate pretty much every telco and media company. The U.S. has telephone service that is rapidly becoming *worse* than Third-world as the telcos desperately hang on to their monopoly by blocking every advance they can. And the media companies have been trying to stop progress since at least the time Jack Valenti was frothing at the mouth over how VCRs would mean the death of Hollywood. The DMCA is one giant bit of technological hindrance. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it." -- Max Frisch _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
