hi,
I’ve been reading Weiner’s “human use of human beings.”
around pages 120-2, he’s talking about legacy and infrastructure issues
which you could certainly apply to the technology of the listserv itself.
Countries are at a disadvantage when upgrading
infrastructure/weapons/transportation
as
I agree re below (as far as I understand it, just coming back from NY);
email btw goes all the way back to the origins of the Net (I have the two
earliest manuals on how to use the Net here), around 45 years ago. The
reason is that discussion works, that it opens vistas, that it creates an