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-----Original Message-----
From: Demichelis, Robert <RDemichelis@BIAUSA.ORG>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.tbi-support
To: TBI-SPRT@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <TBI-SPRT@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: 30 October 1998 14:59
Subject: Re: [TBI-SPRT] marijuana and a head injury


>Laura, I'll stay hopeful that the drug program will have the desired
>effect on your son and that he'll rejoined the activity of life.   It
>just struck me as too coincidental that another 'drug' can have the same
>withdrawing effect on our youth and adolescents - television.
>Hopefully, we can avoid the same conclusion for our current tool of
>communication, entertainment and information, the internet.
>

I'm not at all sure that we can.  Already, the term "internet junkie" is
flying around, and already there are people who spend all day on the 'net.
And are as hooked on it as kids are on TV.

Trouble is, the net is interactive, whereas TV isn't.  So it ges to take
over.  Sure, TV has had longer to develop it's rating-catching routines, but
the net does that without even trying. So how will it be when advertisers
interrupt our emails with "Buy a Mercedes" windows appearing in order to
keep costs down.........

Dickibus