At 9:19 -1000 10/3/98, Jay Hanson wrote:
>From: Jay Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>If engineers can do it, then no one can. But I don't think we will even
>get
>
>I had a typo, it should say: "If engineers can't do it, then no one can."
>
>There is at least one other excellent reason this should be turned over to
>"engineers": engineers hate politics. It's probably a truism that the last
>people you want in politics are those who want the job.
>
>We should "draft" the best system engineers in the country, give them the
>system design objectives, and then let them design the system. It's the
>last chance we have.
>
>Jay
>From a long time lurker:
I was so impressed by the Roberto Verzola article that I forwarded it to a
number of friends for comment. Then I started thinking about the world.
I then realized that Verzola's concept of society as a well-constructed
computer program was completely inadequate, simply because the "world" is a
complex adaptive system, a "chaotic" system, with countless global,
semi-global and local variables. It is virtually the entire biosphere. A
better analogue is a living organism. Try to imagine a computer model of
the human body. Think of all the global, semi-global and local variables
you would need. Body temperature is a global variable ~ global temperature.
Seritonin is very local (in my understanding) ~ telephone call (from one
neuron to another).
Just a thought,
Tom Lowe
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