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From: nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Info-futures
Message-ID: <2130@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jan 89 09:54:48 GMT
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Reply-To: nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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Thanks to BS for sending out the CSF's charter. I don't, however, remember
any suggestion that we should consider the societal effects of CD ROMs in
either his or the original poster's postings.

On a more pedantic note, CSFers might be interested to note that the STV
voting system can only be properly implemented to arrive at an accurate
result in a reasonable period of time through the use of computers. The Irish
use a manual system and put up with a certain amount of inaccuracy in the
count in order to get the results out within days (as opposed to weeks).
So we have ended up back with computer technology after all.

Nick Taylor    "I have seen the future - and it smirks"  Who said this please?
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