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Taking A Trip On The Information Superhighway
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P r o f . M ck in ley B urt
If y o u ’re stalled on the O n-
ram p o f this w o rld w id e e le c
tro n ic th o ro u g h fa re , tak e heart.
S lo w ly , b u t s u re ly , ra tio n a l
m inds are plow ing th ro u g h all
the ream s o f in fo rm a tio n and
d isin fo rm a tio n being released
by p hone, cab le and telev isio n
c o m p a n ies, and by a d v ertisin g
ag en cies or scien ce fiction w rit
ers (the latter are clo se, though.)
C le a r, fa c tu a l ac co u n ts are on
the w ay.
W ell, w h a t’s it all ab o u t?
W h a t’s driving this m assive, c a
reen in g v ehicle th at seem s to
h av e the m om entum o f a ru n
aw ay fre ig h t tra in ? A lread y ,
there have been som e d eliveries
on h y p er-p ro m ises — not m any,
but e n o u g h to su g g e st a fa n ta s
tic fu tu re o f in te ra c tiv e tra n s
actions from sh o p p in g , bank-
by
ing and en tertain m en t to c o n
fere n c es, e d u catio n , research
a n d b o o k p r o c u r e m e n t. (A
single strand of fiber-optic cable
can tran sm it the co n ten ts o f the
e n ti r e
“ E n c y c lo p e d i a
B ritan n ica” every second. A nd
o f co u rse, can be p laced on a
single C D -R O M d isk .)
As I w rote here last y ear, I
am already u tiliz in g som e of
the technologies m ade available
by th e su p erhighw ay. B ut to
m ake it understandable how this
can be done w ith my presently
lim ited equipm ent, (the tec h
nology scenario is ch an g in g so
fast, I put o ff o rd erin g th at 4 8 6 /
50 co m p u ter,) let us go back to
the beginning o f my interaction
w ith this so -called “ n e w ” te c h
nology. T hat w ould be in 1959-
60 w hen I attended IB M school
in B everly H ills, C alif., along
w ith several o th er acco u n tan ts
at a m ajor d isc o u n t h o u se, I
w as rep laced by a c o m p u te r
(g re a t incentive to fu rth e r your
education.)
R e tu rn in g to O re g o n in
1963 and em p lo y ed in the ac
counting dep artm en t o f a m u l
tinational alum inum com pany,
I becam e fascin ated w ith the
early , but so p h istic a te d , e le c
tro n ic sy ste m s in d u stry w as
using for co m m u n icatio n s and
controls in g lo b e-g ird lin g n e t
w o r k s . A t H a r v e y /M a r t in
M arietta our in te ra c tiv e system
connected T he D alles, O regon
plant w ith d ocks in P o rtlan d ,
m anufacturing facilities in T o r
ran ce, C alif., a c e n tra l c o m
p u ter in the sam e p lace, m ore
docks in San D iego, and b a u x
ite m ines in the W est Indies and
A frica.
It was this intensive on-the-
job experience that enabled me,
in 1966, to sim ulate this in ter
n a tio n a l
IN F O R M A T IO N
H IG H W A Y w ith o n -o n -lin e
equipm ent right in a ju n io r high
school classroom of T he D alles
School D istrict — a N ational
Science Foundation aw ard-w in
ning presentation. So, you see,
this so called new “ Inform ation
H ighw ay” is not a “new ” thing
at all. It is ju st faste r and m ore
efficient w ith the new 'c h ip s ’
sw itches and w ires — “nothing
but the nam e o f the g am e,” and
I know the gam e real well.
T h o se fa m ilia r w ith th is
scene w ill understand my state
m ent about already utilizing su
perhighw ay techniques; sort of
“hitchhiking”
until I decide on a com puter,
with a tw o-line phone service,
More Mileage On That Information
Superhighway
P r o f , M ckinley B urt
W ell, th e re is good new s
and bad new s. F irst, th ere has
been a g o o d resp o n se to the
series on w here this new e le c
tronic w o rld o f in teractiv e se r
vices and v id eo en tertainm ent
is tak in g us. S e c o n d ly , it is ap
p a re n t th at a n u m b er o f readers
are e x tre m e ly e n th u sia stic , but
h a v e n ’t th o u g h t things all the
way th ro u g h — so I had better
g et on w ith it.
C a u tio n and a b it o f re
search are n eeded before you
rush out to buy e q u ip m e n t (ea s
ily a v a ila b le ), o r ch an g e your
life sty le /jo b . It is alm ost c e r
tain th at you h av e seen these
glo w in g a cco u n ts on the tube,
w here com pany em ployees no
lo n g e r h a v e to b u c k tra ffic
m ornings and e v e n in g s, but per
form the ir c leric al tasks as h ome
on th eir p e rso n a l com puter; all
h ap p ily sa v in g g as, rep airs and
ch ild care expense. L o cally , we
have seen em p lo y ees in Port
land co m p an ies hap p ily com
pletin g th e ir sh ifts in an idyllic
settin g in B end, O regon, next
d o o r to su p erb sk iin g o r tro u t
fishing.
B efore you becom e giddy
co n tem p latin g how the In d u s
tria l R ev o lu tio n has rev ersed
its e lf and is going to p ro v id e us
all w ith a new , but jo y o u s v e r
s io n o f “ C o tta g e I n d u s t r y ”
(T h at was a long tim e ago w hen
big city m an u factu rers u sed to
d e liv e r raw m aterials and sm all
p a rts to th e h o m es o f low -
sk illed , p o o rly -ed u cated rural
folk. T hey w ere paid “ p iece
w o rk ” to assem ble, sew o r fa b
ric a te item s w hich the com pany
by
Garlington
Award
Recipient
Continued from Metro
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S .E .I. Ja c k e t. T h is y o u n g
lady has had p e rfe c t a tte n
d a n c e fo r th e past tw o years.
She w ill attend B enson in the
fall in th eir T ech n ical P ro
gram .
I p re se n t to you th e first
G arlin g to n A w ard R ecipient
fo r th e y ear 1994, Joy Lisa
Kelly
Joy L isa K elly w ould like
to th an k M r. A llen her S.E .I.
te a c h e r and the S.E .I. fam ily
a n d h e r t e a c h e r s M rs .
M c A rth u r and M rs. Ellenz
fro m
W h ita k e r M id d le
School.
S he a tten d s E m m anuel
T em p le F all G ospel P en te
c o sta l C hurch. B ishop AA
W ells P a sto r, p arents E lder
L aw ren ce K elly , and M in.
R o setta K elly.
Joy Lisa has two sisters
Janice Stephens, and Christina
Kelly, and a loving nephew Ja
Quante Stephens, godparents
Elder Perry Palm er and Evang
Mandel Palmer. Joy would like
to give special thanks to her
aunt Lonnie Jenkins.
w ould collect each w eek. Even
w om en and sm all children were
c a u g h t up in th e m iserable sy s
tem o f ex p lo ita tio n and terrible
w orking co nditions.)
T o d ay , th ere is a grow ing
co n cern about tech n o lo g ical in
e q u itie s already ap p earin g on
the In fo rm atio n H ighw ay. S ev
e ral co ngressm en are extrem ely
co n c ern e d ab o u t “ the poor, the
w eak and the unw ary w ho can
be
s w a llo w e d
up
on
c y b e r s p a c e . ” O n e s e n a to r
sp eak s o f an e x tre m e w here
“ w e ll-h e a le d e x e c u tiv e s tap
aw ay on th e ir c o m p u te rs at
poolside, w hile m illions m ore
to il aw ay at hom e i n ' electronic
sw eat s h o p s ’ — w orking in iso
latio n at c o m p u te r term in als at
low w ages and w ith N O B E N
E FIT S (L ike T em porary S e r
vices).
O th ers a re c o n cern ed about
E L E C T R O N IC R E D -LIN IN G !
T he g ian ts o f this new su p er
in d u stry are alread y busy w ir-
ing up the natio n for new and
so p h isticated additions to the
In fo rm a tio n S uperhighw ay —
w ill the affluent suburbs (w hich
can be b illed at higher rates) be
severed first and better, w hile
th e p oor and ethnic urban areas
w ill be ignored o r charged the
sam e for poorer service?
In this respect, I have w rit
ten here before about the d if
ference in “ju n k m ail” betw een
L ake O sw ego and the N o rth
e a st innercity. I have alw ays
had friends in the suburbs who
h av e forw arded me the “ real
in fo rm a tio n ” on services, sales,
business opportunities, go v ern
m ental operations and the like.
T h e 'p o w e r s - th a t- b e ” d o n ’t
w aste their tim e and m oney on
'p o o r ’ cen su s tracts.
T h ese are the realities o f
th is “ new age,” and why I b e
gan this series last w eek talking
ab o u t the real-tim e, ec o n o m i
cally advantageous applications
o f th is new art — n ot about th e
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fa x m a c h in e , m o d e m a n d
prin ter, there is m ore in fo rm a
tion to be retrieved from around
the w orld than one person can
possibly sort analyze and file
in a reaso n ab le tim e. W ith the
phone co m p an y ’s com puterized
answ ering service on one o f the
lines, I have a very functional
24 hr. loop w ith contacts in
B eaverton and H illsboro.
T h ese friends and fellow
m em bers o f the ‘ A ssociated O r
egon In d u strie s’ group are co
o perating by interacting with
lib raries and netw orks I ’m not
yet equipped to deal w ith di
rectly , then forw arding th at in
fo rm ation to me. This relatio n
ship cam e ab o u t as a resu lt o f a
p resen tatio n I m ade to an in
d u stry group. T hose 40 and
under w ere astounded by my
sc en a rio o f a 30-year-old “ In
fo rm a tio n H ig h w a y ” — and
above all, my role in it. Richard M.
en tertainm ent and in teractiv e
gam es and gossip vistas that lie
ahead in u n interrupted sp le n
dor; w e ’ll get to that next w eek
as w ell as the bib lio g rap h y I
prom ised.
If you m issed the first ar
tic le , be sure to get a copy as
y o u ’ll b e tte r u n d e rsta n d th e
d e scrip tio n o f the fo llo w in g
netw orking I ’m d o in g . Just w ith
my present eq uipm ent and not
yet installing new acquisition,
I ’m doing w ide-area interactive
presentations to tens-of-thou-
sands of people at a w hack in
sev eral m ajor urban c e n te rs,
(from my living room office)
KYOK in H ouston, T exas, and
other talk show s in A tlanta and
D .C. I h av e som e sharp siste rs,
experienced in m arketing who
are fast developing this vehicle
for m arketing my public ap
p e a ra n c e s , p u b lic a tio n s and
m erchandise for A frican T e c h
n o lo g y : E le c tro n ic B a se lin e
Essay going nationw ide.
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NAACP
Prison
Reform
Program
The Attica riots provided a so
bering reminder that “correctional
institutions: do not cure criminals
but only embitter and destroy the
people they are meant to help. Ameri
can prisons are perhaps the major
breeder of crime; two-thirds of those
committed return. Another sad fact
is that black prison populations are
considerably larger than in the gen
eral population. The NAACP has
launched a program to provide assis
tance to inmates and exinmates.
Prison branches have been estab
lished to give hope and to encourage
inmates to participate in the educa
tion and training programs provided
Oregon NAACP branches are plan
ning to implement this program in
partnership with the Oregon Dcpart-
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Director
Of Prison
Programs
The Portland Branch office of
the NAACP will hold the second of
two community meetings designed to
address the alleged racism and dis
crimination within the Oregon De
partment of Corrections. The meet
ing is Saturday, June 25, 1994,4:00pm
at Bethel A.M.E. Church, 5828 NE
8th Avenue.
Mr. LeRoy Mobley, National
NAACP Director of Prison Projects
will be the guest speaker at this public
forum. The NAACP is working with
the Oregon Department of Correc
tions to have on-site NAACP offices
at Correction facility for the NAACP
Prison Reform Program.
Butrick, the president of our orga
nization, is a chief executive with
U .S. W est, form erly “ Pacific
Northwest Bell,” a prime partici
pant in the original award-winning
demonstration.
They w ere even m ore as
tounded to learn that, in 1969,
the Portland School D istrict had
refused even to discuss with me
a contract to install on-line com
puterized inform ation highways
in e le m e n ta ry sc h o o l c la s s
room s. T his though I had a n a
tio n ally acclaim ed track record
— and a $50,000 plant on S.E.
24th and B elm ont w ith the lat
e s t IB M a n d r e p r o d u c tio n
equipm ent. A stonishm ent has
turned into cooperation tow ard
getting som e m odem system s
into the “ p ro g ressiv e” districts.
N e x t w e e k : U s in g th e
In tern et, a bibliography, using
th e S u p e rh ig h w a y to c re a te
jobs.
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