<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">hi all,<div><br></div><div>i filled out the Pew Research Center poll about “the Internet in 2025” on a day when i was in a bad mood. i’m *sure* i said that the opinions expressed were my own, but that was stupid — i should have completed the form as an individual, not as your representative to the Council.</div><div><br></div><div>the upshot is a bad misrepresentation — my view appearing to be yours. i’ll try to send a correction, but the damage is done. i’m learning a lot of valuable lessons in this new role you’ve elected me to. unfortunately at your cost. i would be happy to resign if you think it appropriate.</div><div><br></div><div>i’m really sorry about this.</div><div><br></div><div>here’s a link to the article (NPR is National Public Radio in the US — "all tech considered” stories are generally broadcast on Monday evenings on NPR’s national radio news program).</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/11/288695332/the-internet-will-be-everywhere-in-2025-for-better-or-worse">http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/11/288695332/the-internet-will-be-everywhere-in-2025-for-better-or-worse</a></div><div><br></div><div>and here’s the quote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>The downside? Group-think, mob mentality and manipulation.<strong> </strong>"The
Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the
planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a
piddling, small thing by comparison,"<strong> </strong>says Mikey
O'Connor, an elected representative to ICANN's GNSO Council,
representing the ISP and Connectivity Provider Constituency.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>sorry,</div><div><br></div><div>mikey</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">PHONE: 651-647-6109, FAX: 866-280-2356, WEB: <a href="http://www.haven2.com">www.haven2.com</a>, HANDLE: OConnorStP (ID for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.)</span>
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