From rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Thu Sep 1 07:20:38 1994 Received: from weber.ucsd.edu (root@weber.ucsd.edu [132.239.147.2]) by eff.org (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA19966 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 1994 07:20:27 -0400 Received: (from listserv@localhost) by weber.ucsd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA13852 for rre-dist@weber.ucsd.edu; Wed, 31 Aug 1994 20:11:37 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 20:11:37 -0700 Resent-Message-Id: <199409010311.UAA13852@weber.ucsd.edu> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 20:11:35 -0700 From: Phil Agre Message-Id: <199409010311.UAA13838@weber.ucsd.edu> To: rre@weber.ucsd.edu Subject: that old info superhighway: even its hype is hyped Resent-From: rre@weber.ucsd.edu Reply-To: rre-maintainers@weber.ucsd.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/380 X-Loop: rre@weber.ucsd.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu Status: RO Date: Wed, 31 Aug 94 22:57:21 -0400 From: Philip Greenspun Subject: catch up on the latest info superhighway simile "As the fading light of a dying day filtered through the window blinds, Roger stood over his victim with a smoking .45, surprised at the serenity that filled him after pumping six slugs into the bloodless tyrant that had mocked him day after day, and then he shuffled out of the office with one last look back at the shattered computer terminal lying there like a silicon armadillo left to rot on the information highway." Larry Brill 1994 Bulwer-Lytton Grand Prize Winner