Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 12:45:37 PST Reply-To: Return-Path: Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (jura yvtugavat fgevxrf naq jr ner fyrrcvat) To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) Subject: [surfpunk-0038] MANIFESTITO: ... also, Incoming New Age Staff Steps Into a Time Warp Keywords: surfpunk, white house, typewriters, future shock, manifestito + + Your friendly Itamae-San (Sushi Chef) has spent + years perfecting his craft, and he wants you to + thoroughly enjoy his creations. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MANIFESTITO: The SURFPUNK manifesto is horribly out of date, but we've had a number of people join recently, so I want to give a hint of what's going on here. Currently SURFPUNK is surveying and sampling the leading edge of The Net. But eventually SURFPUNK is a ruse for experimentation in hypermedia. Rather than cutting and pasting we should be transcluding and hyperlinking. And multimedia standards are available today -- we must escape from our ASCII jail. SURFPUNK hopes to evolve rapidly to be a leading-edge-format publication. There will be a place for hackers and cypherpunks, as well as writers, artists, and visionaries, to be involved. I'm working on the foundations now, with MIME, TK/TCL, and WWW as initial platforms, and with object-oriented technology as the fundamental paradigm. All webware must be free. henry strickland surfpunk curator strick@osc.versant.com +1 415 329 7500 (x116) ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Source: The New York Times (National Edition, Northern California), Thur 28-jan-93, page A11. For fair use only. Incoming New Age Staff Steps Into a Time Warp By GWEN IFILL Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Jan 27 -- The staff members at the Clinton White House were still flush with victory from the campaign and recovering from a week of inaugural parties when they moved into their new digs last week. Then they saw the typewriters. Most of the young staff had been reared on easy-touch computer keyboards, satellite dishes, voice mail and fax machines. They were horrified. "This is the White house," said Dee Dee Myers, the press secretary. "It is a beautiful building, less posh than people would suspect and certainly with less space. But technologically, it's somewhere between Roosevelt and Truman." At the Presidential campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., Bill Clinton's aides could push one button and watch their candidate on satellite or pick up their phones and listen to him giving a live speech. News-service machines hummed on every floor, and the computers had three levels of electronic mail through which aides could communicate with each other and process requests from constituents. To understand the culture shock, note this: One of former President George Bush's first tasks on retiring to Houston last week was to learn how to operate a computer, nearly a year after a first lesson in the White House was scheduled and then canceled. Call the change generational. Call it cultural. The people at the White House are calling it "techno-shock." [ nine more paragraphs omitted. you get the idea. --strick] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states, spin surf or spin punk. 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