At 11:20 AM 3/15/00 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
>I'd like to suggest that people take a serious look at Bill Joy's
>"Why the future doesn't need us", the cover article
>in the current Wired magazine. It can be found online at
>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html.
I printed it out and will be working my way through it.
Sounds like 50's SF films vs. 50's written (US) SF. "There are some things
man was not meant to know" vs. "men as gods".
Traditional fight.
As to future risks to freedom - we weren't thinking of asking permission in
any case.
DCF
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"They can attempt to outlaw weapons but they can't outlaw the Platonic
Ideal of a weapon and modern technology makes it absolutely trivial to
convert a Platonic Ideal of a weapon into an actual weapon whenever one
desires."
