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From: Doug.Thompson@p101.f162.n221.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Electronic Banking
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Date: 7 May 89 21:04:21 GMT
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 > From: janssen@titan.sw.mcc.com (Bill Janssen)
 > Date: 1 May 89 22:14:17 GMT
 > Organization: MCC Software Technology
 > Message-ID: <2296@titan.sw.mcc.com>
 > Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
 >
 > In article <8905011336.AA23777@lll-crg.llnl.gov>, bowles@millar quotes:
 > > > ...  Newspapers and magazines, likewise, are better online
 > > > than on paper--take Usenet as an example.
 >
 > Some example.  The content is more interesting than some journals, but
 > the
 > editing is much worse.  It's hard to read away from the terminal, and
 > harder
 > to take notes.
 >
 If you're right, it is because your software is inadequate. Editing an
electronic document can and should be a great deal simpler than editing a 
paper one.
 
"Away from the terminal". When am I away from the terminal? At the same 
points when I'm away from any paper. In the car, walking down the street, 
at the beach. Otherwise my portable with its built-in 19200 BAUD modem 
is with me, and it's a whole lot lighter than the same 44Megabytes of data 
would be on paper.
 
Today most people only have access to a computer at the office, or possibly 
at home. But that is rapidly changing with the advent of the portable 
computer and high speed modem. We must remember when future-gazing that we 
can reasonably expect a considerable increase in the generally available 
hardware capability.
 
=Doug
 


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