[Air-l] networks

[Nancy Baym]

Regarding the net as a metaphor/model for terrorist and other 
distributed organizations like vacationing teachers, it was notable 
today that one sector that apparently did well in a bad day for stock 
trading was videoconferencing technology. People apparently want to 
stay put.


>As to organizations like the ones housed in the WTC, Christian makes 
>an interesting comment. I suspect most of the ones that were using 
>computer databases had multiple backups, some of which were well 
>beyond the WTC, possibly even in other countries. Why not similarly 
>distribute personnel?
>
>And if I may be allowed a bit of tongue-in-cheek, perhaps "distance 
>learning" could in this way come to mean sending faculty to teach 
>from Hawaii while their students remain in Chicago.
>
>Sj
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