Comments - Techno futures. - Pittsburgh Jazz Network2024-03-29T06:26:28Zhttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1992552%3ABlogPost%3A35971&xn_auth=noMr. Amos,
I’ve been a user o…tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2008-12-29:1992552:Comment:363582008-12-29T23:02:30.538ZCWR (Fan of Culture)https://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/CWR
Mr. Amos,<br />
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I’ve been a user or observer of the internets since Blue screen. At first a infant barely able to stand on its own, mostly used for filing documents. It has grow to a teen finding its way. It can turn the bad or into the good. Most likely it will first lean to the shopping Mecca then to education, "but them's the ropes."<br />
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To answer your first question as I stated “Tech” is cheap now, easier to use. Sooner or later we all will be somehow connected to the “internet.” The Internet has…
Mr. Amos,<br />
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I’ve been a user or observer of the internets since Blue screen. At first a infant barely able to stand on its own, mostly used for filing documents. It has grow to a teen finding its way. It can turn the bad or into the good. Most likely it will first lean to the shopping Mecca then to education, "but them's the ropes."<br />
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To answer your first question as I stated “Tech” is cheap now, easier to use. Sooner or later we all will be somehow connected to the “internet.” The Internet has changed ,it grew legs and walks among us. But for the impoverish areas, “Tech” is everywhere. As the numbers grow ,online users gaining access from all sorts of devises, it will get even cheaper. Business will grow to offer free service, more then there are now. Cities will offer free internet service as a draw to visit or live in that area. Schools will teach by holographic design .I don’t think access will be keep under a monetary price tag for long. The devises themselves will always carry a price tag, that’s Capitalism.<br />
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As to your pondering, I guess our poor children don’t appall to deep pockets, but they do to me. So I answer it this way: Education is the only key, unlocking the chains that bind.<br />
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Those that tried to grab at the internet prize have lost -time and again. You can’t corner the market were none exists They soon find out its not so easy. To conquer the internet would be impossible, first you have to tame the beast . Not one religions not one government, no one belief alone can tame the internet.<br />
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A New civilization, again maybe, defiantly the new Cultural side of it, just not the Governing side. CWR...you are more in tune wi…tag:jazzburgher.ning.com,2008-12-29:1992552:Comment:362012008-12-29T02:47:20.188ZKevin Amoshttps://jazzburgher.ning.com/profile/Kevin6
CWR...you are more in tune with the technology than you think. The issue for people is how will the various platforms be made available for EVERYONE to utilize. While for some it is a matter of choice. There is no longer a digital divide. It is a matter of having access and today even homeless people have cell phones.<br />
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Here is something to ponder. If a child in an African nation can get a laptop, then why dosen't a kid in the inner-city have one? The rise of technology has not erased poverty…
CWR...you are more in tune with the technology than you think. The issue for people is how will the various platforms be made available for EVERYONE to utilize. While for some it is a matter of choice. There is no longer a digital divide. It is a matter of having access and today even homeless people have cell phones.<br />
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Here is something to ponder. If a child in an African nation can get a laptop, then why dosen't a kid in the inner-city have one? The rise of technology has not erased poverty and that is disturbing to me. Technology has not<br />
The same divide and conquer mentality exists. Why is that if we are so advanced now or is it business as usual?<br />
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"Something's happening here...what it is not's exactly clear"<br />
"Trying to make it real...compared to what?"<br />
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Kevin