From: "Christian Molstrom" <cmolstrom@lightsurf.com>
> Good god what has become of this world when people start complaining that
> fishing change out of their pockets is so inconvenient? Our grandparents
> would be disgusted.
Don't know about your grandparents, but my Polish-emigre grand-
mother was always disgusted when I fished change out my pocket to
put it in a vending machine. "Put it in the piggy bank," she said,
"and buy AT&T stock." I still remember the day she handed me
a Ma Bell stock certificate and said (refugee from Communism
that she was): "There! Now you're a *capitalist*." (The only
readable irony being that I was, at age 10, a little science-fiction-
reading wastrel.) The role of facilitating consumer spending in
a modern economy was lost on her -- in retrospect I'm surprised
she didn't have a stroke when Richard Nixon was heard to mutter,
before a press conference "I think I'm now a Keynesian."
> cMode: now honestly, can't we think of better ways to put our skills and
> intelligence to work?
Oh, yeah and revolutionize everything, absolutely everything. I've
been reading hype like that since 1972. And have been through
several tech recessions. Gimme *real* baby-step incremental
improvements any day. Who knows, it might even translate
into stable employment.
Remember that coin-op was, itself, a landscape-changing innovation
in its day. Making cMode work would be but a frill compared to that.
But a nice frill, and IMHO well worth de-kinking.
-michael turner
leap@gol.com
> -C
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Turner" <leap@gol.com>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:24 PM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Cmode experience
>
>
> > Inconvenient indeed.
> >
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Received on Fri Sep 7 11:55:19 2001