X-Message-Number: 6287 From: (Kevin Q Brown) Date: 29 May 96 13:10:00 -0400 Subject: Re: nets & civility Dr. Ettinger, Thanks for your recent CryoNet message. I think that the main point that I can bring to this issue, in addition to what has already been said, is that everything that gets posted to CryoNet is readily available to the on-line world from now onward. In addition to the CryoNet web page (with the latest few hundred messages) at URL: http://www.cryonet.org/~kqb/cryonet.html Keith Lynch maintains the complete archives at his web site: http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/les/cryonet/ Furthermore, USENET postings from many (most?) news groups, including sci.cryonics, are readily available on the web, too. The power of web search engines to extract information from all this data has interesting consequences. For example, future potential employers or potential clients will be able to browse all postings you have ever made in any forum that is mirrored on the web and, based on what they find, decide whether or not you are someone they want to work with. Such data mining, combined with semi-automated psychological/attitudinal analysis packages, could become a hot profession in a few years. ** One might think that use of pseudonyms could defeat such analysis, but it's very hard to disguise writing style, so such subterfuge likely will become transparent. As they say, the record speaks for itself. Kevin Q. Brown ** Employers often value teamwork and social skill even more than raw brainpower, which could be bad news for cryonicists! :-( Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6287