in reply to Look at the Big Picture

What is the ultimate goal of your coding?

Create the Borg, or at least make sure the Borg runs Perl. :-)

Seriously, have you thought about how technological advances are heading directly into the Borg? Cell Phones, ever-exanding WiFi, realtime audio and visual linkups. Research on implanted cell phones,cameras, and locater-id chips. We fought it on Star Trek, yet every techno-advance in the Borg's direction, is heralded as the "newest and greatest thing" which everyone is "herded" into adopting.

The Borg have reached earth, but instead of forcing us into the man-machine lifeform, they are making us believe we want it, and letting us do it ourselves. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re^2: Look at the Big Picture
by samizdat (Vicar) on Oct 18, 2005 at 12:50 UTC
    I think about that all the time, zentara. I'm a libertarian, and the combination of Big Brother government, Nosy Mother schools, and Idiot Genius high-tech like RFID, retinal scanners, and cheap cameras scares the willies out of me. What's the most appalling is that people just allow it to happen. For instance, FEMA killed off dozens of plane and truckloads of aid for New Orleans, for the simple reason that they weren't in control. Much suffering was prolonged because the bureaucracy was protecting itself, not the people in need. Where was even the "peep!" on the mainstream news?
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