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From: jdj@munsell (Joel Jennings)
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Subject: Why can't WE change society?
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 03:53:27 EST
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My apologies for posting this in what may be an inappropriate newsgroup, 
but I have a silly question to ask. We all talk about the impact of 
computers and networks on society and the ills (or benefits) they may 
bring.  How come nobody ever attempts to do something constructive?

What I mean is, we have here an incredibly powerful tool in the USENET. 
Our readership has enough cumulative intelligence to reach the
stars, and yet no one tries to use this capability to bring about the
benificial social changes we all read about in SF novels.  Everyone TALKS
about the impacts on society, why doesn't anyone try to MAKE an impact
on society? 

Joel Jennings