Re: global warming is b/s? nice hatchet job

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:40:46PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > For example: there isn't the slightest reason for any security
> > conference to happen, per se.  There's no need to heat/cool a meeting
> > place, no need to expend jet fuel/gasoline/diesel transporting people
> > to it, etc.  It's completely possible to do the entire thing
> > virtually -- and while that also uses some energy, of course, it's
> > far less.
>
> Yes, but the benefits are also substantially less.  You lose all the
> meetings at meals, yakking with randoms met in the hallway, etc, which
> in my experience usually rival and often surpass in value the overt
> business of the conference.

Yes, I know.  But we could -- if we had the will -- replace that.  We've
invented plenty of technology (including this here intarwebs) and worked
out plenty of social interactions which use it.   This is just one more.
(e.g.: there was a time when having a conversation with someone required
being in proximity.  Now that we have this "telephone" thingy, we can do
it remotely.)

But we just don't want to: we're creatures of habit and we like our habits,
and we probably won't change them until we're compelled to.  Which is why
even organizations *which would not exist* were it not for the Internet
will steadfastly refuse to actually use the Internet to full advantage.

---Rsk

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