RE: [ALSC-Forum] Dyson: "Participation is bigger than voting"

[Esther Dyson]

You are welcome to write to opendemocracy.net yourself.  (It *was* linked 
to earlier as well.)

Esther

At 02:32 AM 8/18/2001, Bruce Young wrote:


>Mikael wrote:
>
> >OpenDemocracy ran a so called openInterview with Esther Dyson in Issue 3.
> >Now Dyson replies to questions posed by readers such as Karl Auerbach.
> >Dyson is "fresh from two days with the At-large Study Committee" which
> >makes things interesting.
> >
> >Read Dyson's replies:
> >http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?CatID=12&DocID=556
>
>As I read the document Mikael links to above, I grew angry and I had to ask:
>"why were the members of this forum not ask to participate in the
>conversation?"
>
>Through numerous posts in this forum it has been obvious that a lot of
>talking is going on publically, but the At-Large is not being given an
>opportunity to participate.  In the future, if a public dialog such as this
>occurs, this forum should be notified in sufficient time for its members to
>be able to patrticipate.  I'm tired of seeing only one side of the
>conversation getting the public attention.
>
>
>Bruce Young
>Portland, Oregon
>byoung651@home.com
>http://members.home.net/byoung651/index.html



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