Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: automation vs. the brain
From: henryp@bhphotovideo.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:59:32 -0400

At 05:56 PM 07/18/2001, you wrote:
>I had a conversation with one of my old Comp Sci professors a while 
>ago.  I opined that the development of the Internet had the same level of 
>significance as the development of the printing press.  He maintained that 
>it would prove to be as significant as the development of speech.  Now 
>there's a true believer in technology!

For some time during the mid-'90s some of us wondered if it'd be the new CB 
radio. There was a craze which got not one more second than its 15 minutes 
(in spite of that miserable Rubber Ducky movie).

<<MY OPINION, not my employer's>>

hp