On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 12:41 AM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >Are the 99% terrorists because the 1% will not let solutions ALREADY > THERE happen? Or maybe we are just stupid, and malfeasance is not > the problem. But why so much knowledge, patents, connectivity etc?
>From a distance (without shared community or something), we can have difficulties distinguishing between terror and love, but I imagine we all have a deep capacity for both. Did you notice how many people signed up for a one-way-trip to mars for that reality tv show? Anyways, we are humans and with the internet connecting us we are going to have to learn how to live with that in some new ways. And, coming from a background which would rather die than use violence on other people, I'm somewhat hopeful about current trends. But you've got some severe nastinesses to untangle in the next 10 years or whenever (if things bother you, like privacy concerns, or organizations like the NSA, or the Pope declaring that a child molesting predecessor is a Saint, imagine what another 10-20 years of technological advances will do). -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
