vision2020@moscow.com: (no subject)

(no subject)

Gens Johnson (gens@moscow.com)
Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:21:33 -0800

Whilst singing praises of the public libraries, and also experiencing angst
about potential funding cuts, I am also dreaming of the public libraries
and the public school libraries emerging in the coming few years as The
Community Cyber-Access Places. I have this vision of people actually
doing this cyber-thing together, rather than alone. Lots of good reasons
to hope for this; an opportunity for community-building chitchat, help in
figuring out the technology, and the opportunities to work together to make
"local sense" of the "worlds of information" available "out there". Lots
of good prototypes to look at too, especially in Scandanavia, where
community center access to information technologies has been the dominant
model in rural areas.

But you obviously can't work towards this vision if funding dries up, huh.

Gens Johnson

This archive courtesy of:
First Step Internet