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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
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>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