14 Oct
2001
14 Oct
'01
5:51 p.m.
James B. DiGriz wrote:
Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote:
You may be interested in what David Brin writes about cultures actually encouraging (some) eccentricity in _Transparent Society_. He also groks the metaphor of societal antibodies (and "T-cells" etc).
Will folks please try not to anthropomorphize, abstract concepts? Or, vice-versa, conceptualize living, breathing people?
There is such a thing as being too clever by half.
After all, one man's T-cell is another man's malignant carcinoma. jbdigriz