At 03:27 AM 11/5/1999 +0600, you wrote:
>Anyone who takes a long view of history might ponder
>our own time and whether the system they see is more
>sustainable than previous socio-economic systems that
>we now sort thru the rubble of.
This kind of discussion always reminds me of Walter Miller's _A Canticle
for Liebowitz._ While my philosophy concerning the future and what they
might do with our information should we have a catastrophic collapse is by
no means as bleak as Miller's, I'm not certain we can really teach our
grandchildren to suck eggs.
Not that I'm planning on quitting archaeology anytime soon, or ceasing my
backup process every evening for that matter <g>.
kris
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The University of Iowa
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