From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 08:12:08 MST
Someone quoted:
> "Normally, I dismiss doomsday warnings. But not from a genius. And from an
> industry magnate. And from the leader of the free world.
> Some of the smartest, most important people in the world think our society
> is at risk from technology. Here are reasons they're running scared..."
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_4582.html
This is merely prefacing an article with a baldfaced argument from
authority.
Imagine if Jesse Berst, the writer of the above quote, rephrased the
penultimate sentence in it as "Some of the wealthiest, most powerful members
of the elite think..." Most people would dismiss the article as either
propaganda or anthropology of the upper classes.
It's also amazing how a few DoS attacks are making some of the elite try to
get everyone into a panic, when the actual victims of the attack have
learned and moved on. It sounds more to me like the Media -- including
ZDNet -- are trying to rouse us all into supporting some sort of large scale
government intervention in internet commerce.
L8R!
D@ni31 U5+
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