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>From: tp0x+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Price)
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Subject: Re: _The Turing Option_
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In article <8338@orbit.cts.com> anthro@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Paul Bramscher) writes:
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>Already we're starting to hear terms pop up in American press such as
>"information rich" and "information poor".  No kidding....  Cyberpunks are
>information piss-poor people forced to use "underground" (non-legitimized)
>means to make life more liveable, maybe.
>        

Paul, what are you saying here? I don't get it. 

Say you want a revolution, you'd better free your mind instead. And you can
do that at a library, for heaven's sake. Any library. 

The fact that nobody does, and maybe four out of a hundred thousand people
can even conceive of what that might be like, is the real bottleneck.
But the information is there. In what ways are cyberpunks information-poor?
The only people I can think of who could be called information-poor are
people without basic reading skills or leisure to use them.

Tom

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