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From: scratch@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Steven J Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Support for sci.commtech
Message-ID: <18108@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>
Date: 19 May 89 02:51:47 GMT
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In article <235@reuse.USWEST.COM> ken@reuse.UUCP (Kenny A. Chaffin) writes:
>Could you please explain this in a little more detail? My view is that most
>people using the term "information age" use it to include the communication
>mechanisms necessary to transfer the information, but the term communication
>age does not (at least to me) imply any _information_ transfer.
>
>thanks,
>KAC

"Information age" does not imply any transfer at all.  Think about it.  
Communication, on the other hand, logically implies that information must
be transferred.  That is, after all, the definition of communication, is
it not?  


Steven J. Owens  |  SCRATCH@PITTVMS  |  Scratch@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu
                    
	"...'fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not
matter.  'I' do not matter.  No word matters.  But man forgets reality
and remembers words.  The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his
fellows esteem him.  He looks upon the great transformations of the
world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon
reality for the first time.  Their names come to his lips and he smiles
as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming."

	- Siddartha, _Lord_of_Light_ by Roger Zelazny