Check out Malcolm Pollack's post on what may become the paradigm that replaces the Worldwide Web. Malcolm links to an article by computer scientist David Gelernter, who is not only a technogeek and Yale prof, but is also famous for having been one of the people unfortunate enough to have received a bomb from Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, in 1993.
I put my ignorance on full display in Malcolm's comment section, where I basically piss and moan about the newness of it all.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
are you ready for the Worldbeam?
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Upon reading the bit from unabombertrial.com, here are some stray thoughts...
ReplyDeleteIn hindsight, the unabomber was right in one respect, as a technogeek, Mr. Gelernter would not dream of opening a computer attachment from an unknown source, so why open an actual package from an unknown source?
I don't agree with what "Uncle Teddie" has done, by no means, he was a home-grown terrorist for sure, but he did have a point! But here in the land of sanity and civility, we don't go around bombing people to make a point.
And I agree with the comments over at Malcolm's place about isn't this what already exists, or perchance, taking a step backwards?
"Inevitable" = "Planned Obsolescence"