HAPPY 1999 ! ! !
The clock is about to strike 12:00 1/1/99. Ushering in what will probably be the most interesting year in a couple of millennia.
In just one year it wll be 1/1/00 with all its doubts, worries, excitement, dangers and possibilities. The whole year of 1999 will be one
Apologies, seems my mailer has been dropping messages, Mike Gurstein stuck
this up in November apparently. I hadnae seen it...
A ritual response to Jeremy Rifkin's argument about the end of work was to
accuse him of committing a supposed "lump-of-labor" fallacy that there is
only a given amount of work to be done and that if machines do the work
there will be less for people to do. The Economist magazine is especially
I'm getting double postings back of stuff I put up onto this list - are
they coming up to anyone else as double postings? Let me know, please.
Malcolm
This is very similar to Thomas Paine's proposal in his Agrarian Justice and
reflects the principal political commandment of the Old Testament -- the
"Sabbath of the Land".
The author asks, "What is the relationship between equity and economic
growth?" This is the central question asked by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) wrote:
by Ian O. Angell
Professor of Computer Science, London School of Economics
Personal advisor to Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld? It seems to me that with this allusion Angell is
telegraphing rather broadly that THIS IS SATIRE. Blofeld is a
