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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (25993)	1/9/2000 7:37:00 PM
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...the solution to the gadgetry problem is to know when to push the "off" button... Yes, but he chose the same moment to come out with his wide-of-the-mark joke about chip implants in peoples' necks which seemed to turn off Rukeyser (and me too). There was a segment on the PBS News Hour last week about whether the Y2K problem had been exaggerated. The mandatory dipsh*t from the Y2K Consultants' Association represented the "if we hadn't fixed it the world would have ended" position. A couple of suits said we may have spent too much money on it. But one guy actually had something to say: none other than David Gelernter, the same Yale CS professor who wrote the article called "Now that the PC is Dead" in the WSJ's Y2K edition that I posted here last week. In the 60 seconds of screen time he got (much less than the feeb from the Y2K association), he basically said the problem was no big deal technically but that people latched onto it as a symbol of their mistrust and misunderstanding of computers. It gave them a chance to express in the real world the feelings that "The Terminator" expresses for them in the movies: we save mankind by throwing the computer chip into the molten steel, otherwise the machines take over. IMHO there's more to that than us techie types realize. That's part of the reason vague technobabble and public McNealy jokes about chip implants won't get the job done in communicating Sun's vision to the masses. --QS