Dear cris,
sure! and thanks for the excellent list.
teflon's good, though *I can burn-weld to it; but the idea that its
existence retrospectively justifies space exploration is wonky. intense,
funded research is likely to produce results one didn't expect and the
results of mischievous intent can be turned to human advantage -
& it canbe turned back -
thus a post nuclear defence system becomes an academic communication system:
and then an increasingly generally available communication system; and then
a sewer for pyramid selling and invented worries about one's status, via
with good intent CERN.
it's yer dialectic, i'n it.
I'm mildly excited by the world being wired and look forward, with
scepticism, to the day when the world rather than a subset of the world is
wired. The scepticism is in part to do with knowledge of the intentions of
the Conquistadors who have occupied cyberspace (intentions wch tend to
become individually real only when people lose their jobs); and in part to
do with the increasing number of chattering spectres who walk into me
because the plug in their ear is ruining their sense of space; and also...
well...
Just as long as each time Bill do not obstruct Gates et al show us a
stereotypical dedicated scientist or its wondrous inventions, we think in
part of... oh... Dr Strangelove perhaps.
Now, I must get on my C5 and buy a loaf
L
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From: "cris cheek" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "british-poets" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 20 April 2000 00:00
Subject: writing technologies and military
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