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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: Is techno utopianism justified ? (Re: Why?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.131942.3032@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:19:42 GMT
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- In article <1h54ppINN65m@usenet.pa.dec.com> stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com (Todd I. Stark) writes:
- }Is technical utopianism justified today ? Are we living in an age
- }when some great scientific revolution into a post-modern world
- }is going to save us ?
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- Depends. Do you view "1984" (the book, not the year) as a utopia?
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- }Do folks think utopian ideals are justified ... on scientific grounds ?
- }... maybe on spiritual grounds, as in Marilyn Ferguson and crowd ?
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- Alas, not I. "Can", but I don't expect "will".
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