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[Sil Greene <quack AT ibiblio.org>]

from Bruce:
> After I wrote that I read an article in a magazine (Vanity Fair I think)
> that said Night Club goers in Spain were letting the owner insert an
> electronic ID device under their skin so they didn't have to wait at the
> door with a paper ID.  CRAZY!
>
> Perhaps we are getting TOO comfortable with technology.  What do you
> think?

"getting"??  No, we've BEEN too comfortable with technology.  That's just 
a human trait.  If some cavedude thousands of years ago figured out that 
the glow-in-the-dark rocks killed his enemies/prey faster, he wouldn't 
hesitate to start making arrowheads out of it.  It would only be much 
later, when he starts glowing himself, that he might reconsider the
wisdom of his actions, but of course by then it's too late.

Face it.  The new-technology-development-cycle we use is completely, 
obviously, and irrevocably insane, but that's what you get when the 
overriding motivation for development is profit.

--s