[12100] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The internet will kill us
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Limoncelli)
Thu May 5 14:28:42 1994
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tom_limoncelli@warren.mentorg.com (Tom Limoncelli)
Date: 5 May 1994 09:56:36 -0400
In <9405040245.aa05172@looking.clarinet.com> Brad Templeton <brad@looking.clarinet.com> writes:
>And why is an end to retailing (or at least a major paradigm shift)
>the same as an end to the economy?
It is an end to the (I'm being purposely U.S.-centric here) the jobs
that most Americans have. Except, of course, my friends that work for
FedEx, UPS, and catalog companies.
It's not "The End", it's just a possible paradigm shift with
ramifications we can not predict. Looking into my crystal ball, I see
a lot of jobs going away that aren't replaced by anything else.
Brad, how's this for a SF short story: A planet where all
buying/selling is done by catalog and the FedEx people have become
more sacred than the church. (Gee, if Ursula K. Leguin's father was an
economist instead of an anthropologist this story would already have
already been written!)
-Tom
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