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To: mr.mark who wrote (9919)	12/7/2002 12:30:43 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13020

140. Wise and Technical @23 March 2002 With the first cooking fire to burn down a grass hut, technology exceeded the human ability to manage it. The balance of technology and wisdom has been precarious ever since. Now technology available to rich states and corporations so far exceeds the understanding of their managers that our survival from day to day can only be considered an accident. Rudyard Kipling grasped the terms of this contract over a century ago : But remember please the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die ! [The Secret of Machines] ~ Thor May _________________ And with that... I must depart, as the 3 D world demands my presence. It was fun, but brief. -g