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Re: scary book

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>         Read the SF book "Interface" by Steven Bury.
> 
>         While I believe in community building and soliciting
> opinions/help from the net, I also believe that great innovations can
> come from the individual, often working against public scorn.  The
> above idea is great, but temper it with a grain of salt.  Public
> opinion can be just public ignorance.  Also, from my newsgroup days,
> often those who write the most have the least to say and hope that
> repetition is the key to influence.

Certainly, I agree with everything you say here.  And, if it got to 
that stage then I think that there would likely be a number of people
who couldn't make ANY major decision without calling on the rest of the
world to advise them.  Goodness knows there's enough like that on the
newsgroups and IRC now.  I'm simply providing a "what-if" conjectural
scenario, trying to get people thinking about how the work we lay the
foundations for here could eventually change society.  That, and try to
get thesis material.  :)

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