roundtable: Re: visions of Content

roundtable: Re: visions of Content

Re: visions of Content

Mary Gardiner Jones (mgjones@apt.org)
Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:51:45 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:51:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Mary Gardiner Jones <mgjones@apt.org>
Subject: Re: visions of Content
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <9503240847.AA00102@athena.capital.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9503281421.E28623-0100000@idi.net>


Jeff: I appreciate your enthusiasm for the power of the computer and 
the ease with which young kids can take to it and use it as a creative 
instrument. But it isn't either-or and there are a great many people 
for whom communication via the richness of the computer does not come 
so easily. We have to think of the net as a vehicle for services as 
well as a means of communication and for these uses a TV like monitor 
model may be more user friendly. I see an important use of the nets to 
enable consumers to talk to their government officials and others and 
visit their health care professionals interactively via two way video. 
For this type of communication we need something more familiar and in 
one way less obviously powerful. So lets think about content and the 
best model devices to transmit it in a broader context embracing for 
some, computers and for others, TV like monitors.

Mary Gardiner Jones
Alliance for Public Technology (APT)	|   Internet:	mgjones@apt.org

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