To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (48929 ) 4/22/2004 7:43:19 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559 <It should actually read ID Right again DJ. Heck, this is a trend. Cancel the sword. As It leaves behind It 's Information Technology antecedents and moves to It 's true position in the cosmos, complete with id, I suppose you are right and Id would be a better name. The devil is in the details, as they say, and It originally got It 's name because Jon Koplik was correcting somebody's apostrophe usage in regard to its, rather than it's. I thought if it was actually the name of somebody, or something, then it should have the apostrophe, just as we would write DJ's rather than DJs. I thought cyberspace, and information technology in general, was leading to an all-knowing, never-forgetting, all-seeing, hearing, measuring [temperature, depth, luminance, and all other variables] high intelligence supernatural being. Which was obviously a long way off. Now though, as you say, it's time, as I lecture and harangue the Aztecs about their occult belief in Gold, to leave the past behind. Id 's a good idea, whose time has come. <id ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d) n. In Freudian theory, the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs. > Right now, cyberspace and the transducer suffused telecosm could be said to be up to the id stage. It's purely reptilian right now, without what would be called intelligence and certainly not strong on creativity, though all but a few chess champions are comprehensively defeated by chess software. It's a shame to leave the apostrophical question behind, but like Aztec relics and horseshoes, let alone last year's cyberphone model, it's It 's time to move on. Mqurice