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What changes will connectivity bring about?
Something to Think About |
| The French philosopher and journalist Jean-François Revel had
this to say, 30 years ago [1969], about technology as the hope of civilization:
"Today in America -- the child of European imperialism -- a new revolution is rising. It is the revolution of our time. It is the only revolution that involves radical, moral, and practical opposition to the spirit of nationalism. It is the only revolution that, to that opposition, joins culture, economic and technological power, and a total affirmation of liberty for all in the place of archaic prohibitions. It therefore offers the only escape for mankind today; the acceptance of technological civilization as a means and not as an end, and -- since we cannot be saved either by the destruction of civilization or by its continuation -- the development of the ability to reshape that civilization without annihilating it." Quoted in NewsScan
Daily, 28 Oct 1999
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And in the United States...? |
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between the information haves and information have-nots, a society with a wired-up superclass and an information underclass. Therefore we are going to help people buy computers and we are going to help them train." (Reuters/San
Jose Mercury News 28 Oct 99, summarized in NewsScan
Daily, 28 October 1999)
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...but humans are still human!
