. That is how this current information tool development feels to me: lots of glitter and not much substance. Lots of information, but not much actual communication.
What Stephen Snow writes about, quite eloquently, and as others have touched upon, is the essential problem of making those 40' foot vans outside of Walmart a go-er.
i.e. if the ordinary Jack and the ordinary Jill can't find a use for learning the skills offered by Van employees, or don't need the downloadable stuff -- and the only ones excited about Van machinery are kids interested in video games or geeks interested in novel gadgets, well then --- -as the WalMart guy said to me --- "...Ya, shurr, John, this is neat stuff (head scratching); .... but, tell me John, --- what VALUE - either perceptive or real - will Jack or Jill ascribe to it?"
If the answer to that very perceptive Wallmart question can't be provided in a few cogent sentences backed by real life examples that stand up to hard examination, then maybe we should cool our own jets?
Perhaps changing the world might just have to wait one more generation? Or even two?
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