[Air-l] CMC, network of networks

[Ulf-Dietrich Reips]

Hi all,
I just asked Elbot (http://www.elbot.com/), whom 
I featured as some kind of boundary condition in 
a chapter on CMC recently, on his opinion about 
this discussion, and he replied "I don't know. I 
also do not know what Furbys are. I just accept 
them and hope that they don't eat robots."

After thinking a bit on the difference between 
CMC and ICT he also said that "The virtual 
difference is about 27 megabytes."

Finally he added that we should realize how lucky 
we are we can communicate from human to human, 
and even computer-mediated! He wouldn't dare to 
be the computer though. And then went into some 
kind of mechanical laughter spasm.

I know folks who remember when "online" was still 
"on-line" and meant sitting at a computer 
terminal. (Then, terminals were at a distance 
from the main computer). Times change, 
technologies change, terms change.

Cheers, --u

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