Neverending Cycle ( was : Re: USPS: glowing by leaps and bounds )

[Ken Brown]

mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:
> 
> > Shit, so much for ordering mushroom spores by mail!
> > Hopefully UPS and fedex won't follow suit.
> >
> Another option might be for each package to be dropped into a poly bag,
> heat sealed and rinsed before being handled by staff.
> 
> Our society has, for all practical purposes, endless vulnerabilities. If
> as each vulnerability is exploited we plan on taking drastic steps to
> secure it from future exploitation, the costs will be staggering and the
> list of unsecured items will hardly diminish. The result of the current
> approach is an authoritarian society with a neverending, self-justifying
> security project ahead of it. Sounds like a wonderful place to live if
> you're an insect.

So we get either the Caves of Steel   or the Naked Sun?

I'd go for the former, being a city boy, but I guess T. May, H. Seaver &
D. Honig  might prefer the hyper-exurbia of the latter.  One step from
the Machine Stops - set not in the ultimate city but in the ultimate
suburb.

Ken