Hi, Perhaps not those examples, but let me give one from a line of research I'm close to.
Cochlear implants were a big thing some time in the late 90s. It was an amazing scientific break through - a marriage of applied and pure science cochlear implants used an electrode array to directly stimulate the cochlea (inner ear neural apparatus) of a human subject who was otherwise profoundly deaf (ie conventional hearing aids would not work). So this would be able to turn a completely deaf individual into a "normal" hearing person ! Man, you would think that people from the deaf community would jump at this, wouldn't you ? Parents whose children were congenitally deaf would be able to watch as their children listened to all the sounds of the world ! It turns out, a large percentage of the deaf community didn't want this device. The deaf, it turns out, have their own culture, based on alternate modalities like touch and sight (eg lip reading, and signing) and they are used to that - its their language, they are comfortable with it. Who are we to force them ? It is their choice, if we don't respect it, exactly what are we trying to achieve ? A better world ? according to whom ? -kg On 26 Mar 2003, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 02:27, Kaushik Ghose wrote: > > > If people want to buy MS Powerpoint, that's their choice. > > If you want people to view "your" slides that's your choice. > > If MS wants to ensure people have to buy MS Powerpoint to view ppt slides > > (not true) thats their choice. > > If you want to force people not to use MS power point to view "your" > > slides that's your choice. > > > > At the end of it, you have taken the same choices that MS has. > > Arn't these choices the reason why people dislike the MS model ? > > Will people now not dislike your model too ? > > yeah, i agree. it's like forcing a prisoner out into the dangerous world > when he'd much rather stay back in the familiar, comfortable gloom of > his cell. or like forcing a junkie into a rehab centre when they would > much rather smoke pot. do they hate the model? sure they do. > > - t. > > > -- > cogito, ergo es. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
