OPINIONS RING OUT AS CALLER ID ARRIVES.(L.A. Life) From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: June 20, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Daily News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Reed Johnson Daily News Staff Writer

Gerald Chaleff wants to make one thing perfectly clear. He's not one of these neo-Luddite, crunchy granola, anti-technology nuts.

Au contraire. The chairman of the city's Board of Information Technology Commissioners is the proud owner of a pager, a cellular phone, a personal computer and a fax-modem, not to mention the zillions of other electronic thingamajigs that govern most of our lives.

He cruises th...