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To: Rambi who wrote (6583)	1/26/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Imho, one of the most lively media we have these days for exploring the Next Mythos is science fiction. The works of Greg Bear, Wm. Gibson, David Brin - while there are some rippin reads there, I also find some incisive ideas on what it means, and might mean, to be human. What the new rituals would be --- I haven't the foggiest. If you read Bear's Eon, ritual is supplanted with something else entirely. Direct connectedness. I find that ... way cool. I suspect mankind's need for an understanding of what we are in relation to the Universe will become acute soon. We will have made self-aware machines, and as a species we will be plunged into the moral and material duties of collective parenthood, or patronhood to use Brin's terminology.