File spoon-archives/seminar-13.archive/postco-virtuality_1997/97-04-23.111, message 13


Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 07:25:15 -0500 (EST)
From: 00acking-AT-bsuvc.bsu.edu
Subject: RE: hello?:-)



I usually lurrk, waiting to see what others are thinking, throwing in an
odd grumble. But is seems to me that if you are talking about
globalization and the present world and how cultures and nations effect
each other then e-mail is at present at least as powerful an influence as
the steam boat, jet airplane, TV in the past. Just think of how France
continues to lose power because we write in English on e-mail, or how
certain kinds of software and programming jobs have moved to India. What
happens when we all start using CD-roms, etc? 

What strikes me is how certain countries immediately became part of this
and others did not. Taiwan, New Zealand, Israel, Germany, but not France
and England has been slow. I notice that somce Indian friends I have in
Canada and France use 'magic'. I am been meaning to ask them what this is. 
I am also struck by the egalitarian nature of e-mail. Name professors,
undergraduates, journalists in different places and countries speak as
equals in a way that never happens otherwise. This is all obvious but it
is why I am interested in how email is starting to influence culture.
Bruce King


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On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Vikramaditya Prakash wrote:

> Radhika:
> I really don't know how this list works...I am just trying a post now...
> 
> Vikram
> 
> ----------
> From: 	Cyberdiva (a.k.a "Radhika Gajjala")[SMTP:rxgst6+-AT-pitt.edu]
> Sent: 	Friday, March 07, 1997 5:04 AM
> To: 	seminar-13-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: 	heloo?:-)
> 
> I have been having a "conversation" with Enok and we were wondering about
> the silence on this list so far.
> 
> I think both Enok's interests and Pei-Chi's work are very relevant to this
> list. Also, I've been looking at vprakash's architecture site and it looks
> very interesting and relevant too. 
> the address for his project is -
> 
> http://weber.u.washington.edu/~vprakash/arch504/
> 
> My paper is up at 
> http://www.pitt.edu/~gajjala/sanov.html
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Radhika
> 
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