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Reflection on Evolving Technologies
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November 28, 2006
Thanksgiving 2006
By Richard Thieme

This final Islands in the Clickstream is an attempt to arrive at an expression of thanksgiving (a holiday in America last week) by a most orthogonal route.

First of all, I am keenly aware of gratitude toward people who manage some online lists in which I am allowed to participate. Some of these communities have come to really matter, especially those with a diverse makeup of unorthodox thinkers. Even when we never meet in the flesh, I feel closer to some of these colleagues than to my next-door neighbors.

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