Cloning, and is it OK to Be a Luddite?

[Adam J. Thornton]

> Looks like he means that it's something to look forward to, but as the
> next great challenge for all good Luddites. To pay attention to and
> rebel against, that is, not to be suckered by. All new technologies
> promise you liberation, mind-expansion and salvation, and it's too late
> by the time you realize that they've got you by the balls.

Ahhh, but they _do_ deliver something too.  That's the insidious part.
It's never as simple as a bad technology whose promise lies to you.  ATMs
have managed to bring about a great loss of privacy and decrease in
security of bank transactions, as well as being the immediate stimulus for
most modern banks' "talk to a real person and we charge you $5 policy"; but
they're _so_ damn seductively convenient.

Computers.  Television.  Internal Combustion.  Gunpowder.  Printing.  Take
your pick.

Adam
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