Irrelevant personal detail: [Nick] Negroponte is the son of John N, who
[allegedly] supervised torture in Brazil in the 1960s for the CIA and who,
as ambassador to Honduras, supervised part of the contra war in the 1980s.
Doug
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On Thu, 10 Feb 1994, Zodiac wrote:
> The news article I wrote:
>
> > "When I come home at night," Negroponte says, "the machine will say,
> > 'Hello, Nicholas, I've looked at 14,000 hours of television and have
> > made you this half-hour tape of stuff I thought you'd be interested
> > in.'"
>
> Anders:
>
> > Thanks for the peek into the Canadian version of the craze hitting the
> > States. Incidentally, the man describing the computer system of the
> > future got it wrong. He should have said, "When I come home at
> > night, the machine will say, 'Hello, Nicholas, I've looked at 14,000
> > hours of television and am suing you for cyber-abuse.'"
>
> Hilarious!!! I still laugh aloud when I read the corrected version.
> Thanks, Anders.
>
> Ken.
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