d.brin wrote:
In any event, the organizers do not even discuss what PANELS will be
held at the convention. Practical panels on paradox protection
protocols might attract serious visitors. As it is, the thing seems
planned to be content free. Just an invitation to hang around a
courtyard.
--- Alberto... explain?
You should _order_ your pal Gregory Benford to write
down
his experiences in this sort of meeting. AFAIK, he
is the only
living person now that took part in a Time Traveller
Convention
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by the abuses of OTHER fanatics.
As the Shah helped make the mullah radicals and WE helped make Al
Qaeda with our carelessness during the fight against Russians in Afgh.
Cycles of adversarial radicalism are the very things that radicals
want. Modernist-pragmatists are stymied when such cycles