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   [Date]: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:20:19 -0800
   [From]: Susan Marquez <smarq@pacbell.net>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: Access

Dear Juan,

I also wish it were a matter of choice. I am aware of the dubious first-world-third-world marketing of technologies, which is most insidious in the way first-world pharmaceutical companies market unstable drugs and even dangerous birth control devices to the third world to offset their research and development costs.

Also, to reply to your other comment, the older generation of computer users, in this country at least, want their independence, but still want connectivity with their family. Often their age and health problems keep them from traveling long distances, so the picture is not as bleak as you think.

Juan JosŽ D’az Infante wrote:

> Susan
>
> I wish It were a matter of choice (what you understood from my message) that
> made people not "to want" to connect.
>
> Technology (modernity) is not a solution in many cases, but it is sold as 
> such. You can tell me that people now can communicate more than ever. In
> essence there is no difference to talking or meeting someone personally, or
> writing by conventional mail, telephone or fax. What is important is the
> result. I wish we could state that those older generation of computer users
> are less lonely...