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To: LoneClone who wrote (21157)	9/15/2006 6:45:06 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78420

A picture of me in my youth. I was going by my mother's maiden name at the time, Dissentovich. "I foresee a universal information system (UIS), which will give everyone access at any given moment to the contents of any book that has ever been published or any magazine or any fact. The UIS will have individual miniature-computer terminals, central control points for the flood of information, and communication channels incorporating thousands of artificial communications from satellites, cables, and laser lines. Even the partial realization of the UIS will profoundly affect every person, his leisure activities, and his intellectual and artistic development. …But the true historic role of the UIS will be to break down the barriers to the exchange of information among countries and people." (Saturday Review/World, August 24, 1974) Control center, Gulag Base Ontarian. Johnny Straight Arrow. A paper aeroplane we once flew.

To: LoneClone who wrote (21157)	9/15/2006 8:26:31 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78420

LC, I was never very impressed with Solzihenitsyn. Say compared to Salmon Rushdi. I think Rushdi is a much bigger thinker. One of todays biggest thinkers. I sort of put Solzhenitsyn in the same group with Steinbeck. Great chroniclers of their cultures, but neither had taken the existential leap necessary for any top rate intellectual. James Joyce, not only incorporated existentialism, he was one of the first to involve the quantum world. Those are the two legs which have to be well planted to support any sophisticated thinking in a grand manner. Joyce, Sartre, Camu, Marshal Mcluen, Nitezche, Goethe, Russel and all the Huxly's shaped most of my thinking. And Darwin, the most important scientist to have ever lived, IMO.