ahab as luddite

[jbor]

on 2/2/02 12:03 PM, Mutualcode at AOL.COM at Mutualcode at AOL.COM wrote:

> Right. Except Ahab wasn't huntin' no "spinach whale," and Rosinante's
> spinal cord wasn't fiber-optic...
> 

A separate issue, of course. Regardless, things like antibiotics and condoms
and farms are examples of "bio-technology" too, and direct forerunners of
current initiatives in that field. I'd say it's the ethics rather than the
technology that needs to be questioned.

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