[9670] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: A different perspective regarding priorities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Sun Jan 16 01:27:36 1994
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 01:08:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean McLinden <sean@dsl.pitt.edu>
To: Dave Hughes <dave@oldcolo.com>
Cc: John Rugo <jrugo@nic.near.net>, compriv <com-priv@psi.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0pLDTu-0008WCC@oldcolo.com>
On Sat, 15 Jan 1994, Dave Hughes wrote:
> How could Shrage have missed the point so completely?
Shrage misses the point, often. I suspect that he, like many academics,
enjoys a good argument and isn't above stirring the waters with a little
rhetoric, especially when weight is added to it by virtue of the fact
that he is at MIT.
I find that a whole host of N'Easterners, including Zuboff, Orlikowsky,
and Applegate and Strassmann are better reasoned and better informed than
Shrage, yet he seems to be the kinda guy the lay press loves to quote.
His basic argument, that not all technologic advances are beneficial and
that not all applications of information technology have positive or
desired outcomes is incontrovertable (and by now, uninteresting), but he
tends to be much weaker in his published explanations as to why this is
true in comparison to other authors, some of whom I've listed, above.
Sean
