Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:55:50 -0500 (EST)
Subject: when minds interact



	The real promise of the internet lies in its potential to be a 
collaborative medium. We need new kinds of works and facilities that 
promote--and arise out of--the joint engagement of participants, in which 
all are creators...

"We believe that communicators have to do something nontrivial with the
information they send and receive. And ... to interact with the richness of
living information - not merely in the passive way that we have become
accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an
ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it,
and not simply receiving by our connection to it ... We want to emphasize
something beyond its one-way transfer: the increasing significance of the
jointly constructive, the mutually reinforcing aspect of communication - the
part that transcends 'now we both know a fact that only one of us knew
before.' When minds interact, new ideas emerge."

-J.C.R. Licklider





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