> From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 12:52 PM Friday 8/13/04, The Fool wrote: > > > From: Davd Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Yes, thank you for using the word "seems" so well to > > > display your handicaps at perception. I will now > > > continue using pencil and paper, and segue (as > > > planned) into coding. And while ciriticism is the > > > only known antidote to error, yours (having received > > > more heed from me than it deserved) has been > > > spectacularly dumb. > > > >I'm not the one going around claiming how much better it was in > >day...when B.Gates S.Jobs were able to do things that now D.Brin and all > >new would be B.Gates's, can't because they've conspired to take away > >BASIC compilers from all new operating systems...And older Basic > >Interpreters from back in the day work more intuitively and new > >technology and newer BASIC interpreters have succumbed to techie disease > >making them unusable for people with perceptual blinders, or people too > >lazy to spend ten minutes figuring out how to use them, yadda, yadda, > >yadda... > > > >It's a "things were bettere ine ye olde golde' age" argument, plain and > >simple. Perhaps other people, like D.Brin, also have 'Handicaps at > >perception'? > > An ironic comment indeed from the very person who originally titled this > and many previous threads "Fight the Future" . . .
It's a slightly different argument: "The future will be worse unless we do something" which is true because of many things like...Hubberts peak (oil). Eventually 99% of all jobs will be replaced by technology. Exceptionally high unemployment rates aren't good for the economy. The difference is one is looking forwards, and one is looking backwards. ------ And when Benjamin Franklin presented the draft Constitution to the Congress, he declared: "Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from that it is so far error. Steele[,] a Protestant[,] in a Dedication tells the Pope, that the only difference between our Churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrines is, the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong. But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as to that of their sect, few express it so naturally as a certain French lady, who in a dispute with her sister, said "I don't know how it happens, Sister but I meet with no body but myself, that's always in the right . . . ." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
