Subject: Re: (no subject)
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 26 1997 - 16:25:31 GMT
tim, i've listened to stoll, birkerts, and postman try and stop the
oncoming electronic tsunami and nothing they say keeps me from grabbing my
surf board--is talbott ofering any new ideas? anyone else I should be
reading who will give my cyberlife critical insights? will
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 oconnort@nyu.edu wrote:
>
> > I received the following quote in an e-mail recently. Does anyone know
> > of the author?
> >
> > "The flood of careless, unconsidered, cheap words is the greatest enemy
> > of the profound word."
> > Stephen L. Talbott
>
> Sure -- he is the author of The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending
> the Machines in Our Midst. It's published by the technical publishers
> O'Reilly & Associates, but it is a skeptical look at computing, along
> the lines of Cliff Stoll's Silicon Snake Oil.
>
> Talbott works as an editor for O'Reilly, and acknowledges the paradoxes
> he deals with each day; he also distributes a weekly newletter online,
> under the title Netfuture.
>
> --tim o'connor
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