Sender: Robert Jacobson <•••@••.•••> Allan Bradley and I are on the same wavelength. I do not agree, however, that "how we debate technological issues is irrelevant to the fact that technology will be with us," or words to that extent. The discourse we enter has much to do with how we are permitted to consider option and, in fact, what options we are permitted to consider. The clumsy methods we now have for debating these issues -- for example, the many newsgroups, like this one, to which we must tune to get oppositional points of view -- is testimony to the power of control over discourse. The "reform legislation" in the Congress would have a much different look if it were in the common parlance and not limited to that which the powers in the legislature deem adequate. Bob Jacobson ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) You are encouraged to forward and cross-post messages and online materials for non-commercial use, pursuant to any copyright & redistribution restrictions included in individual messages. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
