Joseph Gaffney wrote: > > At 11:54 PM 2/20/98 -0500, George Bragg wrote: > >Now, take it one step further. Give a significant number of people this > >capability, and combine it with the "IRC chat" feature that a lot of > >people use. You now have access, not only to the world's knowledge, but > >also their opinions, in more-or-less realtime. You have become, for all > >intents and purposes, a first-generation "borg". (And this is where the > >Star Trek lawyers pop out of the walls, serve me with a thousand > >summons, restraining orders, and various other writs, then pop back into > >the walls.) > > Well I don't know if I'd go that far. Just because there is access to > other thoughts and ideas doesn't make them believe these thoughts. > Actually, I liked what you were talking about. It would mean less > ignorance, people would all have the evidence needed for the subject. > Congressional debates would be more easily and quickly done, as everyone > would have the same level of knowledge at their fingertips (of course, not > the same level of knowledge inside the mind). The information, opinions, > and ideas are all subject to the interpretation of the person, making them > quite non-Borg. My point is (which I completely forgot to mention), if you had a real moral dilemma, you could post it (anonymously, presumably) to the Internet, and get (more-or-less realtime) a cross-section of opinions
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