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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Thanks. Well said. I am putting my stuff in an electronic form because I know that when I go the paper will be tossed, at the same time knowing that the electronic version may very likely be unreadable within half a decade, where the paper, if keep, could last centuries. Between a rock and a hard place. MJ<BR>
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On 1/20/12 10:24 AM, "Richard Zane Smith" <<a href="rzs@WILDBLUE.NET">rzs@WILDBLUE.NET</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>so..............<BR>
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every human being should have an iphone<BR>
every human being should have an ebook<BR>
every human being should have a facebook account<BR>
every human being should have an automobile<BR>
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teyeterih (i don't know)<BR>
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amidst the celebration of cool tools... is anyone thinking about <BR>
the cost to the earth and how human minds WILL BE altered by this stuff?<BR>
do we see our children now having "NEEDS" we never even thought about?<BR>
are we getting the languages back at the very risk of ripping away<BR>
the very cultural moorings from which these languages are imbedded?<BR>
cultural paradigms that are the antithesis of such conquest-based extravagance?<BR>
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will a line ever be drawn? enough is enough? are we addicted to the "new?"<BR>
whatever high tech tool, we hold today will be trashed in 5 years.<BR>
Is this really what our ancestors taught us? where is the balance?<BR>
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teyeterih<BR>
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ske;noh<BR>
Richard<BR>
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Andrew Cunningham <<a href="lang.support@gmail.com">lang.support@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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<<a href="cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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> It seems we need a new buzz word to describe the technology needs,<BR>
> development gap, and cultural/language challenges most communities<BR>
> find themselves in. This is because we come back to square one every<BR>
> time there is a new educational technology up for consideration. The<BR>
> idea of a "digital divide" is sort of lame and a bit outmoded these<BR>
> days but it gets a lot of mileage in the text books.<BR>
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In Australia current terminology is more around digital inclusion and<BR>
digital exclusion (in the context of civil society, e-Democracy and<BR>
egovernment) rather than digital divide and has more to do with<BR>
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Although interestingly most recent discussions around factors that<BR>
cause digital exclusion that are occurring in Australia exclude<BR>
language as an exclusion factor.<BR>
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Andrew Cunningham<BR>
Senior Project Manager, Research and Development<BR>
Vicnet<BR>
State Library of Victoria<BR>
Australia<BR>
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<a href="andrewc@vicnet.net.au">andrewc@vicnet.net.au</a><BR>
<a href="lang.support@gmail.com">lang.support@gmail.com</a><BR>
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Dr. MJ Hardman<BR>
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology<BR>
Department of Linguistics<BR>
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida<BR>
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú <BR>
website: <a href="http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/">http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/</a> <BR>
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