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To: David R who wrote (4882)	6/12/2001 9:52:06 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Looking back I see this kind of fears ("information paradigm shift will make us all slaves/irrelevant/[...put in your suggestion]) surface every time a significant (?) new technology surfaced. Cars made us slaves, and electricity made street sellers of petroleum irrelevant. We humans are (of course) still kicking around. So, what's different? This technology deals (in Las Vegas sense of the word) with/out/through knowledge, which will split humanity down the knowing-unknowing line. And the knowing will get richer and the unknowing will get poorer. So, if anybody would cease to be relevant, it would be the poor unknowing suckers. And they will be made even more slaves by the knowing. Which makes it yet again what has always been the only game in town - the power game. This prediction may be a little too manichean, black&white, Workingclass-vs-Kapital. But, "the knowledge will set you free", as the serpent whispered. dj