On 17 Jan 2007 02:17:06 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
It is convenient for application developers (and whole
IT): they should conform to the standard, no less, no more.
Since when are we in the business of making it convenient
for IT?
If that is what we are here for, then we are in the wrong
industry/business!
We are service providers for our company and our
customers.
I'm in agreement with Ted. You can read "computers"
for "robots" in the following quotation:
"More and more people are being deprived of the power of
decision, and being allowed only power of choice among the
things robots allow. [...] We don't want our children to
limit themselves to wanting what robots can provide! We
don't want them shriveling to where they abandon everything
robots can't give - or won't! We want them to be men - and
women. Not damned automatons who live *by* pushing
robot-controls so they can live *to* push robot-controls."
- Murray Leinster in the novelette "Exploration Team"
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