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- From: damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk (Damian Jackson)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Living in a time warp
- Message-ID: <28175@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 16:07:17 GMT
- References: <41000@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- cs199aa@sdcc5.ucsd.edu (Mark Fletcher) writes:
-
- >Help! The most current t.b. articles that I've been able to read are
- >from YESTERDAY. Is it such an unreasonable request to be able to
- >read news posted the same day? As you can imagine, I'm pretty upset
- >over all of this.
-
- >Life is hell.
-
- >Mark
-
- You think that's bad?
-
- Ponder on this.
-
- One day, a day in the not-so-distant future, news-feeds will be,
- to all intents and purposes, instantaneous. The moment you have
- posted an article, it will flash up in thousands of news-readers
- the world over. News will arrive _continuously_. The way that
- posters interact will be altered dramatically, and probably for
- the worse. People will spend longer and longer reading and posting
- news, as they will see follow-ups to their articles almost
- immediately from throughout the world, and follow-up to them ad
- infinitum. We will become hooked on an intravenous news supply.
-
- And that's why the news-feeds have to be maintained as they
- are and we must destroy - Yes, I say destroy - any threat to
- the status quo of the news-feeds.
-
- The very survival of civilisation as we know it depends on
- the preservation of current slow and faulty news-feeds.
-
- Damian
- damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk
- --
- Of course, if the Russians had a large-scale internal news
- system, and it was faster and more reliable than ours,
- then it would become vital not to get behind in news-feed
- technology, and to build a faster and better system than
- theirs. We must maintain news-feed parity. We must not
- allow a news-feed gap to develop.
-