On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Michael Turner wrote:
> I implore you: when posting, think about whether a significant percentage of
> list members signed up to read something like what you're about to tell
> them. Try to tie it to issues of Japanese mobile telephony wherever
> possible. Consider pursuing discussions off-list -- you can always
> summarize later, after asking the list if there's interest.
It seems the list quite regularly veers from mundane discussions of
current technology into long, impassioned discussion of what we all
hope for from the future. Personally, it's for these latter discussions
that I really subscribe. Perhaps we need to split the list into two, one
for the current technical aspects ("how do I test an iAppli?" "why is
X broken on this phone?") and one for social and future aspects ("Will
802.11b take over the world?", "How do girls personalize their phones?",
"What's the difference between a phone and a face?").
To some people, a keitai is a just another piece of technology. To some
technically-minded folks out there, it's a terribly cool toy. To some
of us in Shibuya, it's a lifestyle. And I can see how the musings of
the latter two groups would be considered unnecessary by someone from
the former, who is perhaps just trying to get his iAppli to work.
cjs
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Received on Thu Aug 16 11:48:24 2001