computer threat greater than nuclear one

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> Just when everything seemed to be going so well, this from the Washington
> Post:
> 
> >From Internet Scientist, a Preview of Extinction
> By Joel Garreau
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Sunday, March 12, 2000; Page A15

"O most ingenious Theuth, the parent of inventor of an art
is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of
his own inventions to the users of them. "

				Plato, Phaedrus



"Thus science marches on blindly, without regard to the real
welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient
only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the
government officials and corporations executives who provide
the funds for research. " 

				The Unabomber, Manifesto


"Whether or not it draws on new scientific research,
technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science." 

				Paul Goodman, New Reformation