Re: near-anything boxes allowed to be in the hands of the public?

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 15:20:34 MST


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > [GBurch1@aol.com thinks] things HAVE changed. ... truism that "generals
> > always prepare to fight the last war" may have finally passed the time of its
> > merit. This may simply be a function of the naturally conservative military
> > command structure FINALLY coming to terms with the reality of steady
> > technological progress.
>
> Right! You almost said it here Greg. *Why* do you think this attitude
> has finally changed? It because we have good battle simulators running
> on our computers. Even ordinary proles like us can get to be pretty
> good fighter pilots, strategy wise, from running these cheap games on
> a cheap computer. This is the invention that changed everything. spike

Thats right. Now the generals will prepare to fight by the latest
generation combat simulator. Now you will have an arms race in simulator
tactics and technology...

Mike Lorrey



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