Road to Police State

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

New York Times
Letter to the Editor
July 6, 1993

To the Editor:

What is the purpose of all this "telecommunications highway" technology? 
To get a message a few minutes sooner?  To play more games?

Will we eat better?  Make love better?  Raise our children better?

Electronic networks will make us even more vulnerable to madmen, and the
gadgetry will ultimately be used by Government for surveillance of the
citizenry.  The telecommunications highway is a road to a police state.

Jim Weaver
Eugene, OR