[11585] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Internet benefits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DAN L. BURK)
Sun Apr 10 00:38:16 1994
Date: 9 Apr 94 23:10:00 EST
From: "DAN L. BURK" <DBURK@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
To: "com-priv" <com-priv@psi.com>
Dick St. Peters wrote:
> Harry Tennant of Dallas says
>
>> I'm having difficulty articulating the benefits of the Internet when
>> writing ad copy for the seminars I give.
>
> That's because articulating the business benefits (in the sense that
> you mean) of the Internet is like articulating the business benefits of
> air conditioning.
G.K. Chesterton once observed that there are some questions so fundamental
that one is always at a loss for an answer; his example was the question,
"Why do you prefer civilization to savagery?" The only answer to such a
question, he said, is to look around wildly and stammer, "Well, there are
lamp-posts . . . and policemen . . . and omnibuses . . . ."
Similarly, I have heard that Louis Armstrong, when asked, "What is jazz?"
shook his head and replied, "Brother, if you gotta ask, you ain't never
gonna know."
Dan L. Burk
George Mason University
dburk@gmuvax.gmu.edu
