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To: carranza2 who wrote (64705)	6/7/2005 8:16:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<//Ignorance will evaporate like fog on a hot sunny day.// Don't count on it. GOOG and CDMA will simply allow us new and better ways in which to be morons.> True, just as the industrial revolution enabled pathetic physical specimens to remain alive, their eons-long physical demands being provided by machines and the electromechanical revolution. But that's fine. I quite like the idea of avoiding brain strain and stupid mistakes by having cyberspace sitting on my shoulder telling me wassup and what to do next. "Psst, Cybo, what do you reckon, knight to the wall?" "Don't be silly, flick the bishop up towards the king and you've got checkmate in ten moves! And, I've just revamped your investment portfolio in light of the hedge fund collapse." "Cool, thanks Cybo. Let's head for a beer! You drive. I get lost." I can see that being, "Happy little moron, sitting in the sun. Doesn't know he's moron - my god, perhaps I'm one" is not a bad way to live. We are already like that really. We have little idea how anything works outside our own little specialities, and are part of an enormous global sociological and technological revolution. But being part of it makes life really easy compared with whacking away at dirt with a hoe, and hacking wheat with a scythe, while fending off lions and opposing clans with a spear. Clicking a mouse is easy by comparison. When we don't have to suffer brain strain, it'll be better still. Mqurice