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Re: Esther Dyson in her book, A Design for Living in the Digital Age" (NYTIimes Book Review, 11/30/97) The reviewer says that Dyson, "looks forward to a world of fulfilling communities in which creativity is rewarded, the powerlesss become powerful and governments , if not quite withering away, lose many of their teeth. Though an idealist, she is far from starry eyed: she realizes that these things will not come about unless Internet users-the growing Hyper-community of E-mailers andd Web-site browsers - act responsibly and with foresight." It was Marshall McLuhan (aa Canadian) who spoke of the "global society of the connected." Today's entry about The Mulligan Foundation is a good example of such thinking, the dissemination of medical informawtion using the Internet (Mass. General Hosp.). Working the Internet, andd it is work, can result in a lode of ore, and gems of wisdom. For example, I came across, Philanthropy Journal Alert, [log in to unmask] Their new Website, http://conference.pi.org describes an up-coming conference, one topic of which is, "Working the Web." Without a doubt, there is no "real" substitute for face to face contact, but Cyberspace is important to the PD community, and its on-going defining process. A CITIZEN with PD, preferable nomenclature to a SUBJECT, or PARKINSONIAN.