From hungary-online-owner Tue Mar 21 11:06:28 1995 Return-Path: owner-Hungary-Online Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id LAA01445 for hungary-online-out31415; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:06:28 -0800 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) (fnord) by nando.yak.net (8.6.5/8.6.5) id LAA01423; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:06:10 -0800 Received: from vagvolgy@husc.harvard.edu () via =-=-=-=-=-= for hol@hungary.yak.net (1420) Received: from husc.harvard.edu (scunix5.harvard.edu [140.247.30.45]) (fnord) by nando (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id LAA01412 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:06:00 -0800 Received: from fas by husc.harvard.edu with SMTP; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 14:05:45 -0500 Received: by fas (5.0/16.2) id AA03747; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 14:03:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 14:03:48 -0500 (EST) From: Andras Vagvolgyi Subject: Re: (HOL) narancs on the net To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Cc: hol@hungary.yak.net In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 1592 Sender: owner-Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Steven Carlson wrote: > How are you sceptical? What are your criticisms? My scepsis is not about MATAV and all that - I know, it's hard with this things in Hungary or elsewhere in the region. My sceptisism is more general. The final aim of the Internet is or could be - if there is any finality in this sense - to transmit motion picture to your home computer (among other things of course). Few month ago I had the chance to talk to a main political and economic consultant of GE and its network, the NBC. He was pretty sceptical about the near future chances of this business. The Orlando, Fl. experiment - where a whole community is phiber networked - is too expensive to make it popular and widespread in a short period of time. My second reason for sceptisism is the overwhelming enthusiasm about cyberspace in the media here. Which is fine, though it chews the same thing all the time, and it's like 80% hype and 20% real and new achievment. What makes it more difficult for places like Hungary is that there is little hype about cyberspace and much lesser achievment; no enthusiastic crowds, 2400 baud modems with telephone lines which suck. Not even a move to privatize or make some real competition to MATAV. But we are told to live in the post-Gutenberg galaxy age where the culture of the (moving) IMAGE is more important than the culture of the (written) WORD. We already have the HyperText but what about the HyperImage not to speak about the missing technical needs? How do you Steve - and others - think about all that? Andras ############# # This message to Hungary-Online@hungary.yak.net # was from Andras Vagvolgyi # # To unsubscribe, # send "unsubscribe" to # An announcement-only subscription (less volume) is available # at # Send mail to for more information, # or to if you need human assistance. #############