[519] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
addressing needs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Lloyd)
Fri Apr 5 03:47:32 1991
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 08:59:30 PST
From: Brian Lloyd <brian@napa.telebit.COM>
To: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Roy Smith's message of Thu, 4 Apr 91 08:53:11 EST <9104041353.AA11572@alanine.phri.nyu.edu>
Reply-To: brian@napa.telebit.COM
> Yes, the [K-12 community] will need computers, LANs, and routers but they
> will be provided legislation. What a concept! :-)
Perhaps I am being closed-minded and urbano-centric (and perhaps this
is a socio-political debate that doesn't really belong on this list). At any
rate, from my vantage point of living in New York City, providing computers,
LANs, and routers to the K-12 community seems like an absurd pie-in-the-sky
goal and the people who are pushing it have absolutely no grasp of reality.
. . . I'm sorry, folks, but when you look at what needs
improving in inner-city K-12 school systems, I just don't see computers,
LANs, and routers even making the list.
My original comment was made tongue-in-cheek. You do have a point
though. Social change is what is required. I really think that
legislation will do little to help the students at the K-12 grade
levels. And that comment stands regardless of whether we speak of
LANs or reading primers.
Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN Telebit Corporation
Network Systems Architect 1315 Chesapeake Terrace
brian@napa.telebit.com Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1100
voice (408) 745-3103 FAX (408) 734-3333
