From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 01:00:33 MDT
spike66 wrote:
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>> Atlantis is depicted as ultra-hightech and as a supposed example of
>> the disaster of hightech out of balance. - samantha
>
>
> The only way ultra-high-tech can be out of balance is for it
> to be insufficiently high. Had Atlantis been ultra-high-tech,
> they would have lowered the level of the sea or raised their
> continent.
Depends on whether the being swallowed by the sea was simply
symptomatic of their other errors. High technology is no
guarantee against fundamental error.
> With sufficiently advanced technology, we really are gods,
Only in power. Not necessarily in wisdom.
> and we can fix *any* problem, regardless of how vexing. Disasters come
> only to those who commit the mortal sin of
> failing to develop adequate disaster-prevention technology. spike
>
This is assuming that all mistakes can be corrected in real time
before their consequences get out of hand. I don't see that as
being logically necessarily the case regardless of how good the
technology is.
- samantha
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