[1027] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The question is ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Jul 16 21:56:41 1991
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 20:55:35 CDT
From: SEAN@dranet.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
To: com-priv@psi.com
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> >The net doesn't create new forms of behavior.
> >Rather it creates cheaper, faster and easier ways of expression.
> >As the cost comes down, more and more points of view can be expressed.
>
> >Even shareholders of company can't complain to the management
> >of the company like any user on the net can flame the organizations
> >that run the net, or anything else on which they care to comment.
>
> Would you care to reconcile these two statements?
>
> If people do things they didn't do before, because they used to be
> difficult and expensive, but are now cheap and convenient, how is
> that not new behavior?
It was late, and I couldn't think of a different word. "Behavior" carries
too much baggage for what I was trying to say. How about this...
The behavior is the "What."
What is discussed on the net are the same things that are discussed
in various parts of society (some perhaps more fringe than others).
Who is doing the discussion changes as the costs fall.
As more different people participate, they will talk about things
from yet more different parts of society.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@dranet.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
