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To: Gottfried who wrote (2020)	7/9/2000 1:58:21 PM
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Words often limit our ability to grasp concepts or at the very least to describe what we see beyond the horizon. Here is someone who helps us see beyond the words. Edge presents David Gelernter talking on "The Second Coming —A Manifesto" edge.org Also see Edge home page for interesting site. The introduction at edge.org says his 1991 book, "Mirror worlds", forecast the web "half a decade" before it happened. Well, maybe based on some official standards agreement for the www URL. I suspect that Tim Berners-Lee barnesandnoble.com and a million others using the 'world wide' Internet back before then might find that statement to be a bit of hyperbole. wwwinfo.cern.ch I do not think it should detract from our attempts to see the next step in the evolution. I for one think the genius of Napster already demonstrates what David is trying to describe. I keep thinking the success of Napster in empowering us to exchange music files and the controversy surrounding the established tollgate barons attempts to kill or control this new freer concept of shared knowledge and consciousness before it hits full stride detracts from its real beauty. That is the idea of getting even paranoid people like me to freely share what is mine with anyone and everyone else in the world without fear. I truly enjoy watching as people copy this or that from my nuggets of gold. I especially enjoy watching the anmes of those who work like worker ants day and night copying every single file. This or course prompts me to keep rotating the view of my gardens for all to enjoy. As Napster gets better at balancing the server load for directories and I have learned that my system can remain stable sharing 800 to 900 files (used to be only a few hundred) in the background 24 hours a day, my concerns subside. As good as it is now, those of us with high bandwidth know "you ain't seen nuthin' yet". For me it all gets back to that six-degrees of connectedness thing. If I am only connected to 100 other nodes and each of them is connected to 100....then I can ask my question and get it quickly to the one person who can answer it. Off Topic Here is my big question. The word "sic" is used to indicate something is printed "as intended", having generally been copied that way from the original without alteration. What if anything is used to signify "a minor alteration made (such as correcting an obvious typo) in a direct quotation to remove a distrating flaw in a message"? I realize parentheses are used to add something (often inadvertently left out) to help clarify the intended meaning. I suspect they are also used to replace a confusing noun noun of pronoun with the correct one. Perhaps the answer is to correct the obvious error without calling attention to the fact there was an error in the first place. This is the rule I use but if there are better ideas I would like to know. Thanks again to SlashDot blurb which referred me to the Edge link above: slashdot.org

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