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- Path: sparky!uunet!gator!inland!vandezande
- From: vandezande@inland.com
- Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
- Subject: Re: FAR future programs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.165019.2491@inland.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:50:19 CST
- References: <Bwzy6p.Iv@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <BxD9xx.MF3@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Nov9.143039.2729@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> <BxGyCz.C1r@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
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- In article <BxGyCz.C1r@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, balesej@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eric J Bales) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov9.143039.2729@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Mark Shanks) writes:
- >>In article <BxD9xx.MF3@ccu.umanitoba.ca> browns@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Stuart Brown) writes:
- >>
- >>Oh, brother. SURE there will be. Any technically competent people
- >>will more likely end up being the slaves to the "care-givers" and
- >>art-lovers just to keep the wheels from flying off your idyllic
- >>society, a la "The Marching Morons".
- >
- > Or just the opposite will happen. All the care-givers will become utterly
- > dependent on the small number of people with the technical competence to
- > fix major problems in the automated factories.
- >
- > Either way is Very Bad.
-
- Has anyone else noticed that Mr. Balese has just given a capsule
- description of H. G. Wells "The Time Machine"? In the long run, very bad
- for both groups, Eric.
-
- Joe V.
-