Che <comandantegri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesus Christ, you bourgeois types... the POINT is to CHANGE the World: a > concept you people ARE most absolutely unfamiliar with. > I have probably done more to change the world with computers than you have. Not always in good ways, but I had an impact. If I succeed at promoting cold fusion and it becomes generally used, I shall play an important role in changing the world more than Marxism and Capitalism combined. Plus I expect I know more history than you do, especially the history of Japan and China. Anything real will NOT really die. Stop thinking so short-term and personal > interest. > Many real things have been discovered and then forgotten. Some were rediscovered, such as Mendelian genetics. There is no doubt that other discoveries and technologies were lost for good, because we have no idea how ancient people managed to do some of the things they did. When the University of Manchester set about recreating a partial scale working copy of the Newcomen engine, they discovered a great about it that had been forgotten. We have no idea how many discoveries, ideas and techniques have been lost because . . . they are lost. Trying to account for them is like the old joke about the absent minded professor telling students, "anyone absent today should please raise your hand." - Jed
