On Fri, 21 May 1999, Jeff Owens wrote:
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> Another use is to serve as a community tool for communication.
> This helps eliminate some travel and allows distant family
> to remain in contact. It could also be a way to improve
> education and organize local groups for exploring topics
> together.
This is how I see computers fitting into sustainability. I use my computer
primarily for communication. I see a great potential for computer based
communication to allow the building of strong local communities without
the insularity commonly associated with strong local communities.
The co-op I am living in has a fledgling internal computer network. About
a quarter of the units are wired. The idea is to facilitate communication.
Minimal hardware is needed for connecting to this internal network. I work
mostly from a 486 running Linux, and the public terminal in the common
room is a 386. One of the big obstacles to getting people connected is the
perception that computers mean games, and that a computer has to be
expensive to be useful.
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> All this may not be enough to make todays computer an eco tool,
> but i can visualize a future where computers fit better.
I can envision a future where computers make cars completely unnecessary.
sph
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