that we shall be less likely to be happyclappy about advances in technology
we don't have the internet because kind scientists or benign capitalism
invented it for our benefit - those benefits are incidental
we have the internet because homicidal lunatics were planning not just to
survive the initial effects of a nuclear exchange, that is mutual murder of
civilian populations, with USSR as was but to carry on communicating so that
they could let off more nukes. Their plans did not include the survival of
the civilian populations.
remembering this might encourage us to wonder if the development of the
internet, or anything else, is for our benefit or for something quite else
best of best
L
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From: "Nate and Jane Dorward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "British-Poets List" <[log in to unmask]>; "Lawrence Upton"
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Sent: 19 April 2000 18:09
Subject: Re: "mass" suicide
| > and we do well not to forget that the internet is a military product in
| > origin
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| What are the consequences of remembering this exactly? -- all best --N
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