Yo! Kerry:
Thursday May 08 1997 00:45, Kerry Kowalski wrote to Bill Cheek:
 BC>> A lot of people didn't want to go along with Henry Ford and the Wright
 BC>> Brothers, too.  Good thing they were a minority............
 KK> Alot of people have died because of his invention too... Needles
 KK> deaths... In walking it's very rare to see people walk into each other
 KK> and die! Even drunk walkers rarely die when they stumble into some one.
 KK> You can't see the draw backs of the web as yet. Just like Mr. Ford...
 KK>   My 2 pennies...
Well, okay.........but then you have to look at how many lives have been 
saved, thanks to Mssrs. Ford and Wright.  How many lives are saved by 
ambulances; Flights for Life; organs airlifted from coast-to-coast; etc.
Life was pretty cheap in the horse & buggy era.  Life expectancy was in the 
mid forties, certainly not over fifty.  World population in 1900 was less 
than a billion, I believe.  Today, it's over 5-billion.  When I was a kid of 
the 50's, it was 2-billion.
The literalness of what you said is true enough, I guess, but I don't grasp 
your point.  Like, you know.....I understand the family's grief whose 
breadwinner gets killed on the freeway.....but I also understand the other 
family's joy when the expectant mother gets to the hospital on time, or the 
paramedics arrive at a cardiac arrest victim in time....blah....blah....blah.
I believe the truth of your statement to be far overshadowed by the truth of 
mine.  Nothing personal, though.....more like a cosmic truth versus a local 
truth.
So WHAT drawbacks of the Internet am I not seeing, and what difference does 
it make if I don't see them?  Remember studying the dinosaurs?  The ones with 
a brain at each end?  With inferior nervous systems?
Well.....communications and connectivity are one of three vital ingredients, 
not only to basic survival, but also to a free society.
(The other two are self-defense and transportation or locomotion.)
As I recall......you are still mired in a herd of computers from the dinosaur 
age....Radio Shack Color Computers, right? It would make sense that you are 
against the development of the Internet....same as the Amish are against the 
development of technoloogy and the Christian Scientists are against the 
development of Medicine.
I can relate.  I was mired in a brace of Apple IIe's between 1984-91.  I 
clung to those suckers about like you cling to your CoCo's...maybe worse. But 
then one day, the thunder roared - the lightning flashed - the clouds parted, 
and a voice bellowed out saying.......
Aw never mind.......
:-)
Bill Cheek | bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team | Microsoft MVP
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