At Monday 2/22/99 08:47, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 11:14:01PM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>> Will these new technologies be misused? Sure. Should we not adopt
>> them, then? No.
>
>*Maybe*. I am unpersuaded that just because technology is new and/or
>trendy that it should (or must) be adopted.
I believe the reason anyone is carrying on this topic at all, isn't the
questions of whether we should <b>adopt</b> a new technology, it's whether
or not we should FORBID it.
You're initial blast (from my point of view) seemed to suggest prohibition
(on a public scale, I couldn't care less what you do on YOUR lists) and I
chided you for it.
>To me, that does not
>constitute necessary or sufficient reason to do so.
Apparently, to you, it must solve a problem you see immediately, or you
have no use for it. What seems stranger to me, you wish to FORBID its use.
>I am interested
>in solving problems,
<sarcasm>(that _I_ see, not necessarily any that would benefit
mankind)</sarcasm>
>not in the gratuitous use of technology simply
>because it exists.
Few of us are (though, I think new toys are kinda neat to play with).
Take a close look at the end of my signature, it applies (in spades) to
this 'conversation'.
(geez, this would have been <u>so</u> much easier to read if both had some
kind of "rich" text system.
>
>---Rsk
>Rich Kulawiec
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