[P1] iBook article in the NYT

[Jack Rodgers]

On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 12:10  AM, Michael Flournoy wrote:

>  One iBook could easily hold all of a child's text books. And it could 
> be updated with current information yearly. In fact with 40 & 60 GB 
> hard-drives most of the research information could be held in each 
> machine. Each machine could carry a " virtual internet" . The fact 
> that it isn't being done is astounding.

Another factor is censorship, especially by local groups.  A study of 
history books in high schools would show an interesting trend to ignore 
portions of history while promoting others. One ethnic group dominates 
the writing and purchasing of books and so their preferred point of 
view dominates the history books, just as it does in the press and 
entertainment media.

We can see now how patriotism has become controlled by one group and 
the thoughts of others are being suppressed. Two men were arrested in a 
shopping center for wearing t-shirts saying something like Peace not 
War. Shades of the 70's...

There is a financial factor with publishing books on paper, but they 
are much more easily cebsired abd controlled than the free flow of info 
through computers. Look at the angry posts that arose when I noted on 
this list that Ben Franklin, George Washing and most of the signers of 
the Constitution/Declaration of Independence were slave owners. Can you 
imagine the uproar if truth were allowed into our puglic educational 
system which seems to be selling itself to Coca Cola and other 
corporations and being dominated by Christian and Jewish groups?

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