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>I've never owned any other computers in my life but Apples, and I have an >iphone. And they always make me feel like this whenever I look at them: it's >wonderful that people are able to invent and build something so beautiful, and >it's horrible that people somehow aren't able to bring the same intelligence >and effectiveness to invent and build better societies. >Along the same lines, Frank Oppenheimer (brother of Robert and creator of the >Exploratorium in San Francisco) once said: "Just as present technology had to >await the explanations of physics, so one might expect that social invention >will follow growing sociological understanding. We are desperately in the need >of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man." >That's true, but it leaves out the unfortunate reality that anyone who tries >to invent a better way of organizing politics and society will be punished >severely. If people who tried to invent better cell phones were regularly shot >in the head, we wouldn't have good cell phones. -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Grist Blog: http://www.grist.org/member/1598 Static page: http://www.nohairshirts.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
