Netweaver History
Netweaver was an early example of a "virtual" venture in that the editors, writers, and readers were distributed on networking systems around the world.

The Adapso Foundation (12/88)
THE ADAPSO FOUNDATION BY LUANNE JAMES The ADAPSO Foundation was formed in 1986 by ADAPSO, a national trade asociation representing computer software and service companies, to bring the technology of its members to aid the disabled and disadvantaged. "We want to make the foundation much more than a funding source," explains Luanne James, the ADAPSO Foundation's director. "We want to leverage the financial grants we make with donations of talent and technology so that we can make a contribution that reflects the unique capacities of our industry." An example of this approach is the Foundation's assistance to the Electronic...

Potholes in the Highwars of the Mind (7/88)
POTHOLES IN THE HIGHWAYS OF THE MIND David R. Hughes [note: Remarks delivered to the Electronic Networking Association (ENA) Conference, Philadelphia, PA May 14th, 1988. May be ported or quoted at will.] For the past 11 year, I have intensively explored, developed, celebrated, publicized and promoted the use of personal computers hooked to modems interconnected to other devices to enhance every part of individual and community life. I am no less enthusiastic about the potential benefits to mankind of the universal use of these personal digital devices today than I was that morning in 1977 when I loaded the...

Virtual on Virtual (7/88)
VIRTUAL ON VIRTUAL: A Virtual Review of Harvey Wheeler's Virtual Book on THE VIRTUAL SOCIETY by Paul Levinson Tons of paper have conveyed text seeking to explain the impact of computer processing and transmission of text on the human intellect and society. Few if any of these reams have related what the computer does to the thousands of years of text manipulation and communication fostered by earlier media -- few have adequately placed the computer revolution in the context of history. What is needed are Marshall McLuhans for the computer age, thinkers whose sense of the present and future...

Technological Salvation and Electronic Networking (7/88)
TECHNOLOGICAL SALVATION AND ELECTRONIC NETWORKING Keynote Address to the ENA Conference - May, 1988 Part I by Robert Lewis Shayon In the 1950s, Lisa Kimball's family and mine were neighbors on Meeker Road in Westport, Connecticut. Lisa and my daughter, Diana, were schoolmates. In a letter inviting me to speak this morning at this conference, Lisa recalled that she saw her first color television on a set in my living room. I wrote a book in 1951, TELEVISION AND OUR CHILDREN, and I dedicated it "To my daughter, Diana, and the companion legions of her generation: the challenge will...

The Third National STS Conference (8/87)
The Third National Science, Technology, Society (STS) Conference TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY February 5-7, 1988 Arlington, VA Conference Theme: Technology, Democracy and Development Co-sponsored by: American Assoc. for the Adv. of Science, American Society for Engineering Educ., International Technology Education Association, National Council of Teachers of English, National Council for the Social Studies, National Science Teacher's Association. Supported by The Carnegie Corporation and The National Science Foundation. TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY - Essential for a functioning democracy and balanced development. The average citizen is being gradually, imperceptibly disenfranchised by her or his own technological illiteracy. Decisions are made neither by citizens nor their...

Final Exam (8/86)
FINAL EXAM Key Questions About Computer Conferencing by Art Kleiner I taught a graduate-level course this summer called "Computer Networking"--for the New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program. To my knowledge, this is the only class of its kind so far. 16 students met face-to-face for six weeks, exploring different computer-based communication and information systems, learning how to use them with sophistication, and critiquing them with the same kind of critical eye that a film critic would have for a movie. Some students were full-time, others were taking the class on a part-time, after-work basis. They had guest accounts on...

Desirable Features for Computer Conferencing Systems (1/86)
DESIRABLE FEATURES FOR COMPUTER CONFERENCING SYSTEMS by Stuart Umpleby The following list of planned or hoped-for features of computer conferencing systems was developed at the ENA meeting in April 1985, in New York: 1. Gateways between different conferencing systems permitting, for example, the easy transfer of messages and conference comments between Unison and EIES. 2. Graphics, particularly a graphics capability that will operate on all types of equipment. 3. Notification, that is, a message left on one's machine (possibly even a light), indicating that messages or conference comments are waiting on the various systems on which one has accounts....

Report from the ENA Conference (12/85)
REPORT FROM THE ENA CONFERENCE by Mike Greenly How all of this has progressed! Only last April, a few dozen people came together in a Greenwich Village loft to share a hazy but emerging vision: to link diverse people on diverse electronic networks together. Would that be achievable, amidst the hope-clouds? Well, a half year later, here I am among six times as many people as the original hand-holders who stood in a circle around a geodesic dome. We are row after row after row...in a college auditorium. Folks: this thing is looking more established now. "Using the Medium"...