Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!apollo!nelson_p@apollo.uucp From: nelson_p@apollo.uucp Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Underuse of existing technology Message-ID: <3be5357e.44e6@apollo.uucp> Date: 6 May 88 20:43:00 GMT Sender: user@apollo.uucp Lines: 12 To: comp.society.futures@news >It continually amazes me how far away we are from using the technology >we have. The local phone company and the two banks I've dealt with >in the past year all had clerks WRITE THE INFO ON SLIPS OF PAPER FOR >SOMEONE ELSE TO KEY IN LATER when I dealt with them. This morning That's right. I called Everex (the computer company) the other day to find out whether they had any dealers in my area (Lowell,Mass, Nashua NH). They had to look it up on microfiche! And they had no way to tell where in the state the particular city or town was. Sigh... --Peter Nelson