computer threat greater than nuclear one

Doug Millison doug at dougmillison.com
Mon Mar 13 09:21:56 CST 2000


At 10:34 AM -0600 3/12/00, Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
>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


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