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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pallas Anonymous Remailer)
Fri Mar 12 19:13:45 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:47:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Pallas Anonymous Remailer <athena@cyberpass.net>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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ALL INFORMATION ALL THE TIME
Brian Halla, chairman and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., predicts
that
the information appliance market will dwarf the PC market: "Man will be
surrounded by these information appliances. We always use the analogy of
the electric motor. All day long you've been surrounded by electric
motors.
And you've never once thought about the electric motor, certainly not about
who made the electric motor. It's the same with these information
appliances. Literally, in the information age -- we're not quite there yet
-- but man will want an infinite amount of information instantaneously, any
time, anywhere. And it'll be interactive. That means he won't want to
carry his box around with him, but he'll always want access to the
database... When a consumer gets in his car, he'll look at the dashboard
and say, 'E-mail, please.' And that's different from being in the age of
the computer. It's not like you're going to sit at your desk and calculate
prime numbers. You want to sit at your desk and get access to the Web and
your database on the Web. And you want to do the same thing when you're
sitting on an airplane. You'll stick your card in the back of the airplane
seat in front of you and have access to your database." (Investor's
Business
Daily 11 Mar 99)
"we have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and
whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have
more security" -- U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 3 Feb 1999
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Ben Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
