Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:44:35PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> > We may be facing a future where evidence of thinking thoughts that
> > have been patented by others will be a crime. Can you imaging what the
> > world would be if Pythagoras (or some group) had patented his theorem?
> > If these forces that want to convert the thought world into a bazaar
> > succeed, we may be facing a world darker than the worst nightmare.
>
> I highly recommend reading "Melancholy Elephants":
>
> http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___1.htm
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
Thank you Collin. Beautiful reading. Scary. To think that so many of the
statements made in science fiction have come through, to know how dark
life can be made to be on the surface of this ball, or on the surface of
the other near hovering balls. Already some are talking about colonizing
Mars. The resources to be spent in making a basically dead ball habitable
are much larger than the resources needed to fix the problems of this
already habitable ball. They know it. They know how to weigh their
purses.
Thus, they are not interested in doing it for the good of humanity, but for
the purpose of acquiring another post to control. Buzzards well know
that from the heights is easier to attack and capture.
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