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To: RetiredNow who wrote (52995)5/14/2001 12:04:50 PM
From: Stock Farmer  Read Replies (2) of 77400
 
Mindmeld: No, the world has not changed much.

Not in ways that matter - ways that won't be changed again and again and again... The majority of people on the planet still suffer hunger and cold and disease.

How does it go? "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose"? I have always liked that saying (apologies that my keyboard can not do the accents of the French language proper justice).

A few of us have our lives "enhanced" by the ability to fling electrons at each other across thousands of miles in come contest of the wills. And we may indeed call this progress.

Others can work harder and longer hours and spend less and less time with our families because we can be so productive. That too is progress on some scale.

And still others never know the joy of human contact, raising a glass of fine red wine in a toast - "to you" - graceful in victory or defeat. I am not sure of this as progress.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy belting out these posts from my seat on the deck with the sun overhead and cares nowhere to be seen. But it is possible for a minority to make too much of technological advances, and drag the greedy majority along with them. And that is the substance of the bubble.

Are those kiddies with wireless computers in the classroom helped in their learning about hope and generosity and kindness and compassion and selflessness? Or are they measuring out life in gigabits per second? Or does it even matter?

I think in this case, kids being kids, that it doesn't really matter. So no, things haven't changed that much at all.

FWIW.

John.
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