RE: virus: Logic and Purpose
Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 11:12:35 +0100
> From: Sodom[SMTP:sodom@ma.ultranet.com]
>
> Robin Faichney wrote:
> >
> > > From: Marie Foster[SMTP:mfos@ieway.com]
> > >
> > > I really like this list except for one thing. Why is it
> > > that most ideas that are presented seem to be taken as challenges?
> > >
> > That's cyberspace for you!
>
> If the speed of conversation were faster, we could eliminate ideas a
> lot
> quicker, hopefully getting through the competing ideas propblem. How
> can
> we accomplish this?
>
I really don't think speeding everything up will help.
Isn't that how we got into this? :-)
What I do think would help is a significant proportion
of the participants consciously trying to slow down --
react more thoughtfully, less like a knee-jerk (or just
a jerk), be more tolerant, etc. Including me. We
need to counteract the effect on us of the speed of
the medium, not enhance it.
Robin