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From: stosbma@cs.earlham.edu Fri Apr 10 12:12:10 1998
To: Jordan Green <jgreen@antioch-college.edu>
Subject: Re: communications theory

I believe in conversation as powerful tool for human connection and positive change. A true conversation is like many-to-many communication. There no gatekeepers and anybody can get their word in.

The more a medium embraces the many-to-many model, the more I like it. The web excels at this. While only a small percent have the internet in their home, a good deal more people can get FREE access from the library or elsewhere, and from there they can get a FREE email account that they can check from anywhere the web is, and even build a FREE homepage with FREE tools.

Many people can put up a webpage that the whole (online) world can see. I think the lack of knowledge of this FREEness of the web is a greater inhibitor to people getting online than home access.

I believe the government will mandate universal access, just like they did for the telephone.