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Weblog:   Is e-mail failing us?
Subject:   More than that.
Date:   2005-09-27 01:39:08
From:   themas
There is more behind. It always is. There is this trend towards making oneself dependent on structures that had never been really good for more than playing around with them. (Now that's a bit overdone but you know what I mean).


In other words (and that REALLY happened!):


The day I learmt more and more people in Germany start using the VoIP-service recently offerd as a bundle with IP-Providers --- the day I learnt they REALLY make themselves depentent on not only a perfectly double-checked and "fail save" electricity supply but dependent on the Internet with not only mail or so but with their very telephone comm, the day I learnt THIS I startet to learn how to kindle a fire with my bare hands (flint or stick with bow or so).


Believe me, we will need it.
And a society so dependent on luxury (that's what it is!) like electricity or the www deserves its extinction.....
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  • FJ de Kermadec photo More than that.
    2005-09-27 02:19:28  FJ de Kermadec | O'Reilly Blogger [View]

    Hi!

    First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to post and share your views with us, I really do appreciate it! :^)

    It is true that we collectively tend to rely on structures that were never meant to be relied on and that, to a certain extent, we often ask for trouble by putting undue trust into technologies we haven't tested enough — and some of the core Internet networking technologies are a prime example of that.

    FJ
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