On Monday, March 13, 1995 at 3:01:35 PM UTC-8, Eugene N. Miya wrote:

This message is forwarded at the request of friends at CLB and Cliff Stoll.
I give this talk my endorsement.
--enm
Copies of the author's new book should be available by Friday.
Edit Followup lines appropriately.

AN EVENT AT COMPUTER LITERACY BOOKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SILICON SNAKE OIL
Second Thoughts on the Information Highway ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ******This will be a very popular event, so please come early.******

A free presentation by the author of "Cuckoo's Egg",
DR. CLIFFORD STOLL, Ph.D.

Date: Thursday, March 23rd, 1995
Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Location: Computer Literacy Bookshops
2590 North First Street (at Trimble)
San Jose
(408) 435-1118

Dr. Stoll says:
Surely you've heard the predictions of our computer press:
"Multimedia will revolutionize the classroom".
"Shopping over the net is the wave of the future"
"Telecommuting will let us work from home and reduce traffic"
"Interactive electronic information will make books obsolete"
"The Internet brings us together, forming a virtual community"
WHAT A CROCK. After two decades online, I'm astonished at the hyperbole, misinformation and flatout lies surrounding the network. The Internet hucksters would have us believe that libraries, schools, businesses, and homes will improved by high bandwidth communications. I profoundly
disagree.
No computer can take the place of a good teacher. Essentially nothing is
for sale over the Internet. Hardly anyone telecommutes, even in Silicon Valley. Computers isolate us from each other, further impoverishing our
real neighborhoods. And electronic books are a pain to read.
Here I'll discuss my perplexed ambivalence towared this most trendy community. Yet Silicon Snake Oil is no diatribe against technology. Along
the way, I meet a Chinese astronomer doing physics with an abacus, hunt for women in an Arizona cave, and travel across the midwest on a homebrew railroad cart.
Biography by Cliff Stoll:
Although best known for his academy award winning films, Clifford Stoll is also known for his recent address at the United Nations, and his fourth quarter touchdown pass in last January's Superbowl.
Dr. Stoll has published extensively on quantum mechanical electromagnetic relativity theories and his best selling book has been translated into
twelve languages. For the past three years his original Broadway musical
has played to standing room only crowds.
Professor Stoll's negotiations were credited with releasing several
hostages and he was the first to apply Markov-chain models to global circulation, resulting in vastly more accurate climatic predictions. His Nobel prize acceptance speech emphasized the unity of all mankind; his competition at Wimbeldon demonstrated his great sportsmanship; his recent discoveries in alpha-site keratanose shows great promise for reducing
certain tumors. He has broken a KGB spy ring, starred in three television documentaries, testified at numerous congressional hearings, received the Order of the Garter, and the coveted Gold Star for good attendance at
Buffalo Public School 61. His face is engraved on coins of several Asian countries.
When not teaching science to underprivileged inner city children, Senator Stoll can be found playing ten simultaneous chess matches or squeezing
lumps of bituminous coal into diamonds.

From Computer Literacy: (for those who have never met Dr. Stoll or
read "Cuckoo's Egg)
Dr. Clifford Stoll, a Berkeley astronomer and an UNBELIEVABLY LIVELY
speaker, is reknowned for the book "Cuckoo's Egg", a story about his real-life encounter with a telecommuting hacker. His newest book,
"Silicon Snake Oil", discusses some of the controversy about life
on the Information Superhighway.

Stay tuned. There are more events to come.
03-29 Building in Big Brother
with Lance Hoffman
04-11 Using the Internet for Business and Marketing,
with Jill Ellsworth
04-12 A Brief Tour of the World Wide Web,
with David Sachs and Henry Stairs
04-20 Special Demo of Web Software
with O'Reilly and Associates

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