Another reading on technology changing the nature of many things, including language. KWC
Who Owns the Internet? You and 'i' do @ http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/29/weekinreview/29SCHW.html By John Schwartz, NYT Week in Review, 12.29.2002 "Something will be missing when Joseph Turow's book about families and the Internet is published by M.I.T. Press next spring: The capital I that usually begins the word "Internet." Mr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, studies how people use online technology and how that affects their lives. He has begun a small crusade to de-capitalize Internet - and, by extension, to acknowledge a deep shift in the way that we think about the online world. "I think what it means is it's part of the everyday universe," he said. " The Customizer Is Always Right @ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/view_pr.html Why I said good-bye to one-size-fits-all and became part of the mass one-to-one market. By J. Bradford DeLong Outgoing Mail Scanned by NAV 2002 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
