Posted by Tuars on October 20, 1999 at 17:49:59:
In Reply to: Re: Another gripe vaguely related to e-commerce posted by Bill Door on October 19, 1999 at 18:06:25:
Yes, but you don't need to pay £1000 to access
the library, nor do you need a training course
to learn how to open a book.
It is about giving people the choice. If they
choose to ignore it then that is their choice.
There is alot more to the internet than education
and technical use. It is a new medium of communication
that has many possiblities that we haven't even
envisioned yet. For example, virtual communities
like the one on this page allow new possibilities
for communication.
iMac is a step in the right direction too, it is
still caught between trying to be a PC competitor
and trying to be a consumer level product, as
far as I understand. I haven't used one so I
cannot say how good it is.