On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:09:40 +0000, you wrote:
>All snipped because you have all read it!
>
>Ahmad Risk is presenting some very interesting thoughts which I am
>sure will be very practical WHEN and only when infinite bandwidth
>becomes infinitely cheap (or as near as necessary!)
>
I'm sorry but this is nonsense. I'm not even going to say any more
than that !
>But please don't think Ahmad that we can do away with structured
>info. When your browser says something HTMLish which translates as
>"Get me the most recent platelet count on Alfredo Garcia" the path
>lab will have to understand what is meant by "Platelet count",
>"Alfredo Garcia", "most recent" and even "get me". Not a difficult
>problem, but one which means the asking and answering systems will
>need to do things the same way. Not EDIFACT (heaven forfend!) but
>still structure I'm afraid!
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