Javilk wrote:
> I finally realized, thanks to Azimov, what star travel would be like
>-- utter and stark boredom. Later when I was down at NASA's Space Station
>Simulator, I really saw what it was -- checklists. It wasn't adventure, it
>was being scripted and checklisted to death!
THE number ONE difference between the civilizations of the past, or I
>should say, those past their prime, and the ones that are beginning to
>bloom, is that belief that each of us can CREATE the future! And that
>is how the bloom feeds upon itself -- teaching the people they can create
>the future. That was what it was in ancient Greece, and here in America.
Hubbard (the lurker) responds:
These two paragraphs point out a fundamental conflict of our times. Will
the scriptwriters and checklist writers win or will the individual creators
win. I've seen the scriptwriters win in a lot of places. American
television, from the 1950s to now, is a good example. The quality of
television content in the 1950 varied but it was usually unique
presentations. Television figured out a few formulas which they repeat
endlessly. Will the Internet follow this history?
Incidentally, if the AOL/Netscape thing goes through, will I be getting a
Netscape disk in the mail every day?
Tom
Tom Hubbard
Ohio State School of Journalism and Communication, Emeritus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.osu.edu/units/journalism/hubbard/index.html
The galley slave's ode of joy.
"We've got it pretty good here.
They always get us the latest oars."
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