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At 09:57 +0000 on 05-12-1996, Ahmad Risk wrote: > Alan wrote: > > > Ahmad wrote: > > > > >Call for Action: prepare yourselves and your children for this > > >paradigm shift, whose very early beginnings we are witnessing now. > > > > Admad, I see that Sun Life are also into this prediction business, > > though I suspect the motives are rather commercial (scare the life > > out of people and hope they will feel more secure after buying a > > policy!). > > My prediction have nothing to do with medicine, nor scaring the shit > out of people. > > My arguments were constructed on careful reading and learning of > human history and it's monumental changes. > > As I said before, there have been only 2 major paradigm shifts in > our history, that of The Plow and that of The Factory. > > Anyone denying that we are on the threashold of the third paradigm > shift (in culture, medicine, society and all) is surely still in > the age of The Factory. > > This third paradigm shift involves Information (see Alvin Toffler: > "The Third Age"). We've hardly scratched the surface of that > particular revolution. The Web is only 3 years old, the PC is not > much older! > > There is already wholesale demise of many long held beliefs and > lovingly preserved sacred cows. Fine. I am sure gas light is quite > pretty and romantic and I have no problems with that. > > The point is: my call for action is to conduct that careful and > thoughtful reading of history. Something that we have often > miserably failed to do. Nothing to do with doom and gloom and > insurance policies (of which I have very few). On the contrary, it > is about a different kind of future where the Networked Individual > will rule supreme and cultural perceptions will transcend all > varieties of forced, transverse associations (Nation, Religion, > the AA etc.) > And to add my point...(s) If we shift the paradigm, we better think it over, ponder about the consequences and think about the infra-structure we need. (Not only the bandwidth, but the social, psychological, privacy aspects) We GP's in this place can be at a small spot of the fore-front. Lets think loud. Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD C. Sterrenburgstr 54 3151JG Hoek van Holland the Netherlands Telephone: (+31) (0)174-384296/ Fax: -386249 Mobile : (+31) (0)6-54792800 ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%