[1558] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Internet paranoia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Wolff)
Fri Nov 8 14:24:23 1991
To: Einar Stefferud <Stef@nma.com>
Cc: HUGH PRESTON <hpreston@osan-emh.af.mil>, com-priv@psi.com
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 91 14:04:34 EST
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
In fact, one of Parkinson's laws (I forget which) was that as institutions
age, their communication tends to be increasingly internal until in the
limit they stop talking to the external world altogether. One might of
course suppose that in that state they would wither and disappear, but I'm
sure you can think of counterexamples... -s
