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To: JC Jaros who wrote (32205)	5/22/2000 1:38:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

>>Name: Douglas Stanley Jr. Email: IT-Manager@MontgomeryAirport.org Location: Montgomery, AL Occupation: "Too much competition???" That statement invalidates any arguement Joy has to make. And this was one of the companies that was self-righteously weeping and moaning about the danger of Microsoft dominance? One more instance of a company whose product bombed in the marketplace, and rather than place the blame where it belongs (on themselves ), they point the finger at others. << earth_2_bill!! >>Joy quotes from a passage of Kaczynski's Unabomber "Manifesto" that posits a scenario in which computers become sufficiently sophisticated to make their own decisions without human oversight and in which any human control over the systems devolves to a "tiny elite" that will either find means to eliminate the masses or -- "if the elite consists of soft-hearted liberals" -- tend to their physical needs while eliminating their free will through biological or psychological engineering. <<