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Technology Thought for Today (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael S. Hart)
Mon May 24 20:08:53 1999
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:48:59 -0600
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Subject: Technology Thought for Today
Amid this din, a quiet voice paradoxically cuts through with perhaps
the best insight of all into communication in an Information Age. The
original media hacker, Martin Luther, somewhat grudgingly published a
complete edition of his Latin works in 1545 to correct the errors that
had accumulated in earlier copies. In the preface he explains his
hesitation to release one more contribution to his society's
information overload: "I wanted all my books to be buried in perpetual
oblivion, that thus there might be room for better books."
-Neil Gershenfield, in When Things Start to Think, Henry Holt & Company, 1999.
