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Round Table: Dialogue among Civilizations United Nations, New York, 5 September 2000 Provisional verbatim transcription

Address by Rex Nettleford (Jamaica)

Mr. Nettleford: It is good to learn that. I should like to identify with the last speaker. Information technology, yes it is something that will definitely have to be taken into account. But hearing my good friend invoke the marvellous qualities of this new civilization, leads me to persist with the thought that I am very happy to continue believing that we as human beings have the best computers that were ever invented with capacity for storage and retrieval. I am quite willing to have the machine, the information technology, help us. The Internet gives a lot of information, much of it very necessary. I do not think it really educates. I should like to feel that dialogue, discussion, discourse, and so on, will continue to have the benefit of flesh and blood and the creative imagination and intellect that goes with it.

Mr. Picco: Professor Ramazani.

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