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  • From: "Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Global Village Idiocy (link)
  • Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 13:15:30 -0400


The author says, among other things, that the Internet connects us only on a
technological level, and not on a cultural level. Thus, we aren't achieving
greater understanding, but rather quite the opposite.

Some passages in this article tie in nicely with several recent threads.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/opinion/12FRIE.html?ex=1022206363&ei=1&en=bb
7ddfb96e3b3f16

<snip/>

Worse, just when you might have thought you were all alone with your extreme
views, the Internet puts you together with a community of people from around
the world who hate all the things and people you do. And you can scrap the BBC
and just get your news from those Web sites that reinforce your own
stereotypes.

<snip/>

Slashdot posts: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/13/1220210.shtml?tid=149







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