Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:36:55 +0000
From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.com>
Subject: Re: ON COMPUTING WITH DNA


Brad

Personally i look forward to working on a technology that enables those who
work to less hours... Organic computors will not achieve this...

'The right to be lazy'

Steve.devos

"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote:

> JF Koh wrote:
> [snip]
> > They're still some way off from actual organic computers, but one of the
> > imagined applications is weaving smart circuits into the fabric of
> > clothing.  I imagine technology would then become ever more an invisible
> > part of our daily lives.
> [snip]
>
> Will technology *remain* an all too invisible part of our lives,
> i.e., will we continue to have to commute to work, and, when
> we get there, will we be subjected to such primitive things
> as pressure of deadlines?
>
> So far, that's the way it's been: As Joseph Weizenbaum wrote
> some quarter-century ago: The computer, by bailing out
> bureaucratic social structures when the quantity of data
> to be processed exceeded what human clerks could
> handle, *prevented* social revolution.  The computer has
> (so far!) been one of the most powerful forces
> for social reaction (or at least "conservatism") in the
> past 100 years.  I am not impressed by the thought of
> wearing an "intelligent" suit to [over]work.
>
> Yours in the hope for a future in which all persons
> shall have that which, in the past, the well-to-do had,
> but today even many of the rich cannot afford:
> To quote the title of Josef Pieper's magisterial
> essay: "Leisure [is] the basis of culture".
>
> \brad mccormick
>
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>
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