Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961003231940.12417A-100000@acy1.digex.net> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:21:01 -0400 From: Tu and Bob Myers <mailto:tuandbob@ACY.DIGEX.NET> Subject: Re: ideas of "appropriate technology" still respected? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
A much more eloquent answer than I gave!Applause from
Bob
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Reinaldo Vicini wrote:
> Dear Gary and friends:
>
> You have the choice. In fact you can start right now. Give it a try for a
> week. Hey, with all bad things of cars and computers, It is inevitable!
> They have more benefits than disadvantages. They need adjustments. However,
> we have freedom. We can travel anywhere you like and comunicate with
> anywhere we like -you know as much as I do as colleagues, as I perceive it
> from your signature, that computers have not made us really as productive
> as manufacturers are trying us think-.
>
> Reinaldo Vicini
> mailto:interext@anditel.andinet.lat.net
> http://www.colomsat.net.co/rotarios.bogota
>
>
> Como todas las cosas están llenas de mi alma
> emerges de las cosas, llena de alma mía.
> Mariposa de sueño, te pareces a mi alma,
> y te pareces a la palabra melancolía
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>
> Poema 15 - Fragmento Pablo Neruda
> 20 Poemas de amor y una canción desesperada
>
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> #From: Gary Berlind <mailto:gberlind@CRL.COM>
> The same is true of cars. They help me get around better, but they also
> pollute the air, require enormous megatechnological infrastructures to
> support them, increase the cost of living, kill zillions of people on the
> highways, result in burning up of natural resources at insane rates, lead
> to wars for scarce petroleum resources, etc. etc. etc. Bottom line for me
> is, if I had a choice, I'd have opted not to have had
> any of these wonderful conveniences of modern technology. They price we
> pay as a society is too damn high!!!!#
>