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Politics : Evolution
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9621)11/9/2010 7:17:46 PM
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"To me, Einstein's limit is a door that won't be opened, barring a technology that is beyond Clarke's limit - indistinguishable from magic."

Well, it has ever been so forever and always--but new doors keep opening. We have already agreed that we are completely at sea as to dark matter, dark energy, and gravity--to name the most obvious. Would not the opening of any one of these eggs be comparable (or perhaps so much more) than the discovery of electricity and the roads THAT has taken us down--including the incredible world of binary off-and-on existence on the internet?

You and I have perhaps reached the limits of our vision (and mine admittedly has been growing dimmer for some time now) but if humankind survives and harnesses the brains of his computing machines and integrates...what will we know in say one million years?? Remember, that if the earth has lived for one day, then human life has lived for only two seconds. And the earth to space is less than an electron to our solar system. And we spin and speed in a solar system that spins and speeds in a galaxy that spins and speeds in a cluster that spins and speeds...hurtling through an expanding space to an ultimate fate behind the green door.

I mentioned somewhere a few weeks back (and you can use this in your book--be my guest!) that it is not unlikely in a century or two (if not sooner) that some kids will suddenly start inputting data wirelessly (and tirelessly!). Will they be confused at first? Will society be enslaved by those who evolve to this great capacity first? Will we help this evolutionary process by embedding silicon wafers in our heads?

You mentioned Clarke. I loved his writings. I think Childhood's End was the first I read--way back before 2001...
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