Comments on rabbit + crow blog: Public Broadcasting Act of 1967

Yep.

2005-10-19T00:45:00.000+01:00

Yep.

So, Lyndon Johnson actually invented the internets...

2005-10-18T20:01:00.000+01:00

So, Lyndon Johnson actually invented the internets?

"I believe the time has come to stake another claim in the name of all the people, stake a claim based upon the combined resources of communications. I believe the time has come to enlist the computer and the satellite, as well as television and radio, and to enlist them in the cause of education...

So I think we must consider new ways to build a great network for knowledge--not just a broadcast system, but one that employs every means of sending and storing information that the individual can use...

Yes, the student in a small college tapping the resources of the greatest university in the hemisphere.

--The country doctor getting help from a distant laboratory or a teaching hospital;

--a scholar in Atlanta might draw instantly on a library in New York;

--a famous teacher could reach with ideas and inspirations into some far-off classroom, so that no child need be neglected.

Eventually, I think this electronic knowledge bank could be as valuable as the Federal Reserve Bank.

And such a system could involve other nations, too--it could involve them in a partnership to share knowledge and to thus enrich all mankind.

A wild and visionary idea? Not at all. Yesterday's strangest dreams are today's headlines and change is getting swifter every moment.

I have already asked my advisers to begin to explore the possibility of a network for knowledge--and then to draw up a suggested blueprint for it."

SHAME! SHAME!! SHAME!!!Normally I regard spam comm...

2005-10-18T17:59:00.000+01:00

SHAME! SHAME!! SHAME!!!

Normally I regard spam commentary as an inconvenience, a annoying cyber-weed that I must regularly pluck out to keep my bloggy garden (I like to call it my "blarden") healthy and attractive.

BUT THIS IS GOING TOO FAR! That some villain would stoop to using my beloved "JOHN CARTER OF MARS" and my even more beloved EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS as an advertising ploy! I am nauseated with rage!

I urge all hackers to go to the "private road construction" link above and deface the site irreparably. The fools have awakened the sleeping God of War!

Favreau Talks Carter Of MarsDirector Jon Favreau t...

2005-10-18T17:50:00.000+01:00

Favreau Talks Carter Of Mars
Director Jon Favreau told SCI FI Wire that he thinks technology has finally allowed Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic fantasy story John Carter of Mars to be made into a feature film.
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