Um, if it's built by humans it won't be intelligent :-).....
Seriously, "the left" such as it is, needs to really get into ecology,
engineering, satellites and computers in the next decade and, oh ,yeah, figure
out how to break the neo-Kantian stranglehold on the current international
law/relations paradigm.
Green the banks,
Ian
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> Subject: [PEN-L:7634] I get letters...
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> I get letters... Anyone got responses?
>
> >From: "RICHARD ALLEN@" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Question
> >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:49:51 -0500
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> >Hi
> >
> >Have you done a paper about the relationship of commodities prices of first
> >world vis via the third world? The anomaly of a barrel of yuppy shampoo
> >worth thousands of dollars versus 30 dollars for a barrel of oil, that
> >President of Venezuala spoke of. It would debunk much of the alleged
> >progress of the last 20 years which was supposily created by the the so
> >call technological revolution of the Internet. I have no doubt that
> >technology has increased the efficiency of the transaction processors and
> >accounting guard gods in the West. However I believe that the real growth
> >in the World economy was due to the immense exploitation of the 2 billion
> >people formerly under the protection of the Soviet system. Even the Cuba
> >revolution depends on the sexual exploitation of its youth by capitalist
> >tourists in search of the Holy Grail of an Pre-AIDS paradise of uninhibited
> >sex orgies.
> >
> >It is a wonder how far we are technologically from Clarke's 2001. As a
> >programmer I startled on how far away we are from HAL. I think that
> >ultimately, AI will finish off Capitalism, (and perhaps Humanity), long
> >before the Left has chance!
> >
> >Richard
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
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