Re: Delivery by Explaining/Confirming

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 
>From: P3D Gregory J. Wageman comments:
>...................
>Even if each person on this list could introduce 100 other people  to
>good stereo, we'd only be able to re-educate 1% of that 10 million.


*****  This sounds pessimistic for some reason. Perhaps we could argue it
from a desired number or percentage designated as a *goal*. Going backwards,
how many folks need to be introduced to 3D to obtain the results we want?
What do you mean specifically, by *re-educate*? Keep in mind the rate of
spread of technology when it's successfully incorporated into today's style
of whiz-bang techno-toys.

Consider too that such usage could incorporate instructional values such
that along with the *fun exposure* comes a subtle education in desirable
principles for understanding and use of the medium as well. Different
processes for exposure have varying degrees of efficiency as far as this
*re-educational* effort, however it's defined. 

Then there is the point of critical mass. How much energy does each
interested person have to exhibit, in relation to the medium, in order for
it's spread to become self perpetuating at a high rate? What kind of rate
would that really be? I think it's safe to assume that the exact final
figure in numbers or percent is far less important than the level of
involvement and energy that develops around the use of stereo 3D. What we
are most interested in is a healthy growing strength, not necessarily a
total-mass involvement.

Perhaps we are already at such a point since there seems to be a healthy and
fairly rapid growth in the medium already?

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
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