KM in whose hands? Ha! LO20633

tom abeles (tabeles@tmn.com)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:44:10 -0600

Replying to LO20627 --

Linda Wing wrote, in a very small part:

> Let's assume that some day we wake up, and technology fails us. For
> whatever reason, it isn't available to us as it used to be....hard as it
> is to imagine, let's just imagine for a minute or so that condition, and
> what it tells us about our human condition given all of our technological
> support.

Perhaps Bruce Sterling said it best, in his story, Green Days in Brunei:

"The technical elite were errand boys. They didn't decide how to study,
what to work on...Money decided that...(they) were owned by the abstract
ones and zeros in the banker's microchips. Knowledge wasn't power, not
really, not for engineers. There were too many abstractions in the way."

thoughts?

tom abeles

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