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From: jacka@ffast.ffast.att.com (Jack Adams)
Subject: Re: Will technology AGGRAVATE information overload?
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In article <nickmac-1505952308270001@ip-pdx4-09.teleport.com>,
Nick MacIlveen <nickmac@teleport.com.us> wrote:
>   Have you been run over on the information highway?  Do you think
>technology is actually making everyday life harder?  Are you skeptical
>about what all this information at our fingertips will do?
>   <Bandwidth conserved>
>Please e-mail all responses to me, Nick MacIlveen, by Wednesday 5/17/95 at nickmac@teleport.com.  Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!

I've sent Nick a copy of the speech "Informing ourselves to death",
which Pat Townson, moderator of TELECOM digest, recently reposted:

Source:  Neil Postman, German Informatics Society, 11 Oct 90, 
Stuttgart.   Prior publication in TELECOM Digest January 26, 
1994, submitted by William Pfieffer. On file in the 
Telecom Archives, lcs.mit.edu.
        
In short, the speech supports the trends that Nick
is researching.  Others may find Dr. Postman's words enlightening.
Cheers!
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