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rendition switcher   Question: How has technology changed the
way you live?  Esther Dyson: Yeah, it has changed my life
tremendously, the one interesting story the first time I went to
Russia, I have sort of I had an MCI million camp but I didn’t
use at my still more very many people to send email to and it
was really unpleasant to use so I went to Russia met all these
interesting people and discovered that it was impossible there
is stay in touch with them by telephone because the telephone
system was so bad where as e-mail you just send the e-mail in
the might take a day or two to go through that but we get
through, so I started using e-mail to stay in touch with to
people I had met in Russia So that in a sense the existence of
the internet enabled me to stay in touch with people would there
fore made the travel more wort