Techies Meet with Journalists
I’m a firm believer that electrons are a much better way to communicate than dead trees.
Archives: Expert Predictions
Techies Meet with Journalists
A lot of people will seek to make information prosthetics, but journalists need to think about amplification.
Techies Meet with Journalists
A newspaper’s branded identification “does add value.”
Techies Meet with Journalists
“The editor’s function is in my home.” With unlimited information available, computers would select what you need, based on preset parameters, by sorting through invisible identifying codes embedded in information. “Five to 10 years from now the material you’re writing will be written for machines, not people … The way stories are written has to include information about the stories.”
Electronic Speech, Press & Assembly
If we allow ourselves to be drawn into a legislative, “Let’s pass a law on what Menu Item 1 means,” we’ve already lost the battle. We have protections under the Constitution of the United States, and I want to see them applied online!
Electronic Speech, Press & Assembly
Anyone that advocates BBS sysops [system operators] should act as deputy marshals in Dodge City is preposterous.
Electronic Speech, Press & Assembly
We need to look very carefully at how we apply our legal system to the issues of electronic bulletin boards.
Electronic Speech, Press & Assembly
A cloud … is building, a hurricane of over-information that threatens, if it continues, to serve as nothing more than nonsense deforesting large tracts of our national acreage … To focus the amount of information we are producing on a weekly basis, which probably exceeds that produced in most of the preceding centuries, would take an enormous lens, or perhaps a million rather tiny ones.
Libraries on the Superhighway
The worst of the “roadkill” aspects of the superhighway will be for libraries.
Welcome to Cyberspace
When I look at the Internet, I see something astounding and delightful. It’s as if some grim fallout shelter had burst open and a full-scale Mardi Gras parade had come out. I take such enormous pleasure in this that it’s hard to remain properly skeptical.