File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9711, message 455


Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 11:56:05 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Cyberbole


Michael Hoover wrote:

>> BRUSSELS (November 25, 1997) - Nicholas Negroponte, head of the
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory, told an
>> information technology conference in Brussels on Tuesday that the
>> potential of the global computer network had actually been vastly
>> underrated.

Apropos of nothing, Negroponte is the son of the CIA agent who ran the
northern front of the contra war on Nicaragua in the 1980s, and who
supervised torture in Brazil in the 1960s.


Doug




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