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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (68237)	8/28/2005 9:31:45 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Maurice Re: "cyberspace stuff" I have been reading your posts for years, but to be quite honest when you would lay it on too thick with the cyberspace stuff my eyes would glaze over and I would scan on past to a topic that interested me more. <g> And you HAVE posted some of your ideas on things that are absolutely unrelated to cyberspace topics which are extremely interesting. But now I am making a serious effort to try to decipher your cyberspace vision and in a recent post I may have found a helpful clue. You posted something to the effect that the cyber-revolution would "replace our brain" but not in the form of benefitting us as a "cyber-servant" but by "making us redundant". This sounds a little like the behavior of "Hal" in 2001 Space Odyssey. The "Hal" character is a common theme in science fiction and in endless variation. I used to devour science fiction, but I never cared much for the "Hal", "rebellion of the cyborgs" or "computers take over the world" themes. But in any event, I suppose your cyber-revolution vision is a very long term theme, not something for the here and now, but way out in the foggy future. Not decades, but hundreds or maybe thousands of years in the making. Do I have that much right? Slagle