Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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And Americans are very noisy people. I used to work in hostels and bars in various tourist destinations and you could always hear the American tourists coming from a mile off. You couldn't help but make out everything they were saying even if they were on the other side of the building.
> You couldn't help but make out everything they were
> saying even if they were on the other side of the building.
I'm one American who hates having personal conversations
(in the flesh -- I don't even own a cell phone) within earshot
of other people. Not that I have anything to hide -- it just
makes me uncomfortable.
Unfortunately, **my** discomfort speaking loudly for all the
world to hear sometimes makes my interlocutors uncomfortable too.
I once tried to carry on a conversation with somebody in public
by more-or-less whispering in that person's ear, only to
have him turn and yell, in exasperation, "Will you **stop**
doing that!".
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