The commentary ``The Introversion of America'' by Tom R. Halfhill (May) relates directly to my experiences living in a circa-1920 house--with a porch--in the small town of San Luis Obispo, California, and to my own ambivalence surrounding the prospect of virtual communities emerging on computer networks.
Do you think it feasible to attempt to organize the users of Internet into a town-meeting-style representational democracy that would eventually become the authority in any disputes that might arise between parties in far-flung jurisdictions?
I am the architect of the data-replication products for IBM's DB2 family of database managers, so I am disappointed that I did not see IBM products represented in ``The Changing World of EIS'' by Karen Watterson (June).
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