Social Futures LO7782

jack hirschfeld (jack@his.com)
Fri, 7 Jun 1996 23:51:35 -0400

Replying to LO7729 --

Roxanne Abbas, reminding us of the unconscious (or semi-conscious) cruelty
of many companies, asks:

> For how many years did your company maintain a smoke free
>computer environment to protect the equipment before you considered a
>smoke free environment to protect the people?
>

Thanks for this reminder, Roxanne. The first time I saw a "clean room" in
a semiconductor fab, I was astounded. For quite a long time I had
believed that the high incidence of fatal infection in hospitals was
essentially unavoidable because (or so I thought) conditions of high
sterility were impossible to maintain where there is human traffic. I had
never attributed it to cost accounting.

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Jack Hirschfeld How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? jack@his.com

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