I seem to recall T.S. Elliot, though it's a rather ancient memmory and I'm
not sure of why. The last line should be "Not with a bang but a whimper", I
think.
Ed
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From: "Arthur Cordell" <[email protected]>
To: "'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION'"
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] darpa's living foundries
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but with an "upgrade".
Pete Vincent from the FW list
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:17 PM
To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION
Subject: Re: [Futurework] darpa's living foundries
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Michael Gurstein wrote:
Special Notice (SN) DARPA-SN-11-44
SUBJECT: Living Foundries Industry Day
DATE: June 28, 2011
(...)
The Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring an Industry Day for "Living
Foundries," a new DARPA program. The goal of the Living Foundries program
is
to apply an engineering framework to biology to harness its use as a
technology and drive its advance as a manufacturing platform.
This spring, listening to the endless stream of weather emergency
reports from across the world, while grinding through the ninth month
of unbroken overcast, with drizzle interrupted by downpours, I
thought about amending Eliot:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but with a gurgle
However, in light of this article, I might propose a new last line
Not with a bang but with an "Ooops, who opened that?"
-Pete
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