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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
You don't understand his comments about the internet because you are not from his generation. You had to live then, before there was tv in homes, to understand it. Personally, I feel the same way about TV.....altho I watch it. And I think the internet is way overrated as well. Altho I use it.
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So from twaddle you descend into condesending twaddle.
I can understand where he's coming from. Nostalgia for things past is common to us all. I wish my nephews could experience some of the things I had as a kid. But things move on, some for the better, some less so.
As for him being a product of his age, take the example of my father who is of a similar age to him. He bought a ZX81, upgraded to a BBC Model B and was online by 1987. He still has a laptop (though I admit I bought it for him) and until recently had a DSL dervice to keep upw ith his email. He only gave this up because the exchange rate from £ to euro dropped so much it became a luxury he could no longer afford.
So yes, you are damn right I don't understand him. Why would anyone with a grip on reality
want to understand him?
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
It was a much more 'interactive' time before these things. We had to interact with each other, not with faceless beings across the world.
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People still interact with one another. The medium has just changed somewhat. Just because I can't see your face doesn't make you "faceless".
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
People had to use their imaginations, not depend on visual aids so much. And guess what? He obviously doesn't care about more access to his work.
Slow his fanbase? Are you kidding? Geeky? Maybe by todays standards.
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No I'm not kidding. What do you think the result of preventing new access to his work and alienating his longterm fans will be. It's not a poison pill it's a slow strangulation.
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
No one familiar with his works could be alienated by his words.
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How can they become familiar if they can't
read his works. Why would they bother searching out paper copies, when the only words they have access too are idiotic, irational, ranting.
Frankly the best one can hope is that eventually his rights pass to someone who retains their faculties.