Hi Nick!

Sorry for my extremely late reply!

14 Aug 2017 04:43, from Nick Andre -> Richard Menedetter:

 RM>> Nobody forces the general public to look at Facebook.
 RM>> They could as well download an EBook from Descartes, or some
 RM>> scientific paper and read that.
 RM>> It is NOT the Internets fault that people do not do that very often.
 RM>> They COULD do it, if they wanted to.
 NA> But sadly Richard... people by and large don't want to.

I agree in general.
But is that the fault of the Internet, or of the people.

The Internet offers both.
If people choose one over the other, then it is the fault of the people.
And missing education.

 NA> Since the Internet became popular, we have yet to see some really
 NA> truly great science or scientists evolve; using the tools and
 NA> information available on the Internet to advance the next "great
 NA> thing".

The point is the information IS there ... if people do not use it, then it
is the fault of the people ;)

 NA> Some exceptions of course. Take that project which uses the idle
 NA> processing power of a volunteer's desktop computer to participate in a
 NA> mass distributed-computing effort to decode images from space.

Indeed ... I started to contribute to distributed.net in 1997 ;)
Wheeew ... I am getting old ;)

 NA> Bitcoin currency is possibly another.
 NA> Both of those have some real potential.

Indeed ... but for me something like wikipedia would be the first to mention.
Also the long tale ... there are many strange hobbies that only few people do.
The Internet can bring those people together, and offer a forum where they
can exchange their ideas.

CU, Ricsi

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