Re: CS-234 Discussion

CS234 <cs234@lhmerino.dont-email.me> wrote:

This thread is intended for the students of CS-234: Technologies for democratic society
 
How does Usenet fit into the vision presented by Licklider and Taylor in
"The Computer as a Communication Device"?
 
Reflect on:
- Which aspects of their vision are realized through Usenet?
- What aspects have evolved differently from what they imagined?
 
Feel free to respond to comments made by your classmates as well.

Usenet aligns with Licklider and Taylor's vision by enabling people to engage in asynchronous intellectual collaboration,
regardless of their geographic location.Through its open newsgroups covering diverse topics, Usenet allowed users to exchange
ideas and participate in discussions, fostering a sense of community based on common interests,and breaking the constraints
of physical proximity. While it doesn’t provide real-time interaction, Usenet's threaded discussions match the authors' concept
of creative and interactive communication, where dynamic collaboration leads to new ideas.Hence, we can say that Usenet laid
the foundation for distributed intellectual resources and  communities, embodying the potential of computers to revolutionize
communication as predicted by the authors.As for the aspects that didn't evolve as foreseen by the others we can say that
there wasn’t universal and equal access to Usenet as it required material and knowledge, also Advanced Personal Assistants the
authors imagined, appeared a lot later than Usenet .