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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rf_hombre who wrote (3187)	7/21/2001 10:55:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12247

<I wish our icons were made less out of the Gladiator mold and were more of a Chang Diaz kind> Or the Irwin Jacobs mold. Or the Andrew Viterbi mold. Or the Tiger Woods mold. Or any number of people. There are plenty of them to inspire us if we look around. Actually, it's easy to get overly negative. Most people are pretty good and inspiring in their own right, in their own less spectacular ways. That's the strength of democracy. On the uniform blob bit, I try to figure that out and am not convinced that we will in fact blobify. I suspect we are more like a fluid and when we reach our Reynolds Number, the crowd spins out of laminar flow into eddies and turbulent flow. I suppose our individuality will always be expressed because never is one life the same as another. Every instant is but a snapshot of existence, never to be repeated or copied, other than in rough approximation. We ride our horses side by side, but the rocks of the earth inevitably confront us and we part company as we seek a way forward. [Plagiarized, approximately, from one of the few books I had to read at school, which was about some English guy in India]. Most people are against cloning, but I think a bit of cloning of Franklin, Irwin, Andrew wouldn't go amiss. Yes, yes, I know it's how people are brought up too, but it's a heck of a lot easier to bring up a Supercomputer to do great stuff than it is with a simple little 286. Thanks for giving the link to Franklin. I enjoyed reading about him. He sure does have the right stuff. There's a boy I met on my flying course last year, James Taylor, who was 12 or 13. I wouldn't be surprised if he's another Franklin. He wants to be an astronaut. He seemed to me to have the brains to do it and was a very personable boy. If he doesn't do it, I'll wonder why. He had a nice family too. Mqurice