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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: dedication
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Date: 5 Jan 90 18:41:55 GMT
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In-reply-to: eli@spdcc.COM's message of 5 Jan 90 01:23:57 GMT

In article <1125@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
   igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
      But is it going to change the world?

   information/communication technologies (perhaps including usenet)
   are indeed changing the world.  TV and fax have been instrumental
   in a number of the 80s' civilian uprisings against totalitarianism.

Of communications technologies, Usenet itself may not change the
world, but its technology is in use in several projects with extremely
far-reaching social implications.  news.groups, etc. are decidedly
ephemeral, but some uses of the technology have eternal implications.