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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (142895)8/10/2004 6:04:20 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
C2, we are getting away from FADG except that I am discussing supplanting the USA, using ARPANET against the USA, so that's quite FADGish. <I think it will be centuries before the computer equivalent of a working corpus callosum can be built.>

The equivalent already exists. The corpus callosum as I understand it is just a data freeway. A slow one at that. Optical fibre moves a lot of data at high speed. There is fibre strung around the world already, with more being produced all the time.

The hard part is what happens at the ends of the optical fibre and corpus callosum.

The mistake people make is to think the computers will copy what we do. My point is that what we do is not largely relevant to what cyberspace would want to do. It needs a woman like a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

So to say that It wouldn't enjoy a good cigar attracts the question, "So what?" Come to think of it, I don't enjoy a good cigar either, but don't feel deprived.

Cultural imperialism is a weird thing. People often want to proselytize and convert the natives, as though everyone is waiting to be enlightened by the superior beings arriving in their midst. When the locals let of IEDs, it puzzles the wondrous harbingers of mudder-fudder "music" with their foul mouths and belligerent attitude who were expecting to be garlanded with flowers by nubile young women throwing back their chadors.

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