ehewitt wrote:

> Hi Taran,
> I like the technology imagery folded into literature. Right on my
> brother!!
> Just to add that the technology "have's" & "have not's" equate to
> being as well the economic/financial/societal "have's" & "have not's".
> The wider & deeper the digital divide the more pressure/tension is
> built up between the "haves" and "have not's" and the quicker the
> clock ticks in the time bomb it assembles itself.

I think of an elastic band that either breaks or snaps back together
violently. I'm wondering how close we actually are to the point where
the elastic either snaps things back where they are supposed to be - or
if it breaks.

> Given this reality the authorities [political/economic/societal] need
> to remember that "For whom the bell tolls? It tolls for thee"
> The appropriate proverb I think is " A word to the wise [ought to be]
> is sufficient"

But wise men perceive approaching things;
http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/wise.html


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