[UA] Computer Phreaking

[Michael Daisey]

med12 at cornell.edu wrote:
> 
> Maybe the Compumancy idea would work better as a new archetype (I'm at a
> loss for a name) which represents the idea of always having to do things
> in the newest way: The Progress Addict perhaps?
> 
> A similar taboo could be kept (Don't use the phone if you could e-mail,
> don't cut vegetables by hand, but use the food processor, don't take
> penicillin if there's a new synthetic antibiotic available), although I'm
> not sure what the channels would include.
> 
> Part of thinks this is stupid, but another part of me looks at Brookstone
> and the Sharper Image catalog and thinks a focus on useless technological
> innovation is a large part of our culture.
> 
> mike dawson

	I think this is a great idea...it makes a wonderful taboo for
	an avatar.

	The channels could concern themselves with being a 'friend' to
	technology--elevators hinder your enemies, your computer never
	slows down, etc.

-- 
Michael Daisey
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"It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
oath." Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek dramatist. Fragments, no. 385.