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[Karen Mahnk]

And those young techies will tell you - as my son has - that there are
many other ways in which  we can be  watched, traced, stifled, in
danger, etc. "Get over it" he says.... I don't necessarily agree w/
him on all points but I get the feeling that truly,  the previous
generation tends to overreact. Before you go & call Truman Capote,
consider all those nutcases ie. the BTK guy, that never needed any
reason OR personal data to get at  any of their victims - most were
random.  As knowledge buff, I always believe that we are safer with
more data. If  "weirdo-Joe" knows about me  - I can  by the same
token, easliy  know all about him if needed.
Karen Mahnk

On 9/5/06, John <jrichmond at alphapark.org> wrote:
>
> But with any technology the most pertinent questions may be What are the
> unintended consequences of its use?  and How may it be abused?  -- Joe
> Schallen
>
> At PLA (I think...one conference blurs into another) I attended yet
> another workshop on Hot Techno-issues and How the Youth of America who
> have Never Known Life without Hi-tech Whatever use Technology, *and* one
> of the points made was that, while almost all who are younger than we
> aging Boomers are use technology enthusiastically and furiously, they
> are often clueless about consequences.  Not just clueless--the word
> "consequences" probably isn't programmed into their brains.  I am not
> picking on people who are younger than I, and neither was the speaker;
> also, some of the rest of us are clueless.  The example used was the guy
> at the baseball game (seems like it was Vitally Important to
> Civilization game, and not your average game) several years ago who
> intercepted a high-flying ball, thereby messing up the whole thing,
> scoring, etc.  The offender had to be escorted from the park; within
> minutes or hours, people knew where he lived, what his name was, where
> he worked, details about his family, etc., all because of hand-held
> devices, chatty cell phones, e-mail, et al.
>
> While we all laughed--as we were supposed to--at the visuals and
> incidental remarks that accompanied the story, the fact is that there
> could be psychopathic people out there who could've tracked the man
> down, killed his family in cold blood (Truman Capote, where are you when
> we need you?)...and therefore, you see, who among those carriers of
> information about the bad man in the bleachers even thought that what
> they were doing might have led to the death of a semi-innocent baseball
> fan?  (I exaggerate to make a point...though in today's wacked-out
> world, perhaps "death" is not an ill-chosen word.)
>
> Anyhoo, Joe's comments about consequences reminded me of all of the
> above.  Those of us who are parents warn our children about consequences
> of actions all the time, or something like all the time, but I'm not
> sure that adults are necessarily better, at all times and in all places,
> than some of the kids they/we admonish.
>
> John Richmond, who is admonishing us all from the...
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