From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 21:25:53 MDT
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>--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> <mailto:spike66@attbi.com> wrote:>
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>>...George Washington Carver, not George Washington.
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>Mike Lorrey wrote:
>...aren't political systems to be considered
>technologies? Washington's greatness wasn't from his battlefield
>experience, since his win loss record was decidedly on the losing side.
>His greatness came from his refusal of dynastic ambition...
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Thanks for pointing that out Mike. Lets keep Washington among
the greats, and Jefferson too, for he was an inventor and scientist
as well as politician. Good, I like this system better already. {8-]
It occurred to me that something like what I proposed has been
done, by James Burke. He produced two excellent PBS series
called Connections and The Day the Universe Changed. Burke
explains history in terms of technological development, how one
breakthru leads to another, creating a new demand for a third,
which soon follows. His presentation is exactly what I am
looking for: colorblind, gender blind, culture blind and
value neutral. spike
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