From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 03:43:00 MDT
It appears as if Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
|
|You can store an awful lot of data in some of those crystals.
|And we should really get on with borgifying ourselves. Why,
|most of us still look like everyone else and have no more
|constant Net presence or continous augmentation than your
|average nerd. The Collective awaits. And of course chanting in
|moonlit meadows sounds like good clean fun and might actually
|give us some physical body exercise without enduring the harsh
|light of day most of us shun. :-)
Those who long for "borgifying" and to become perfect cogs of the
"Collective", should become loyal member of the local State.
Be advised that the ``Borg'' metaphore includes dark undercurrents
of collectivism, the communist/fascist contempt of the freedom of
individuals, and meme of superiority of the technocrats over others.
Cyborgs do not need to become a fascist entity.
Cyborgs may well cooperate in e.g. an anarchistic way.
/kpj
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