Re: SOC: Wright vs. terrorism

From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 11:17:10 MDT


Brian -

Good point on the (previous) title.

- Jef

> >From: "Jef Allbright" <groups@jefallbright.net>
>
> >Robert Wright has begun publishing a nine-part daily series on the
> >emergent threat of terrorism, how it's not going away any time
> >soon, and how most of the world's leaders don't get it yet. The
> >first four installments are already available:
>
> > http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070210&entry=2070211
>
> > Robert Wright is a deep thinker and renaissance man, author of
> >_The Moral Animal_ and _Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny_, and
> >fits the issue of terrorism into the broader context necessary to
> >understand it and effectively deal with it.
>
> > This issue is highly extropian -- involving memetics, future
> >quality oflife, strategy, more -- and critically needs the kind of
> >deeper understanding common on this list.

-----Brian D. Williams comments --------------------------

> Thanks for posting this, the first 5 parts are now available
> online. This is very good material with lots of common ground.
>
> I would note however that the title is misleading.
>



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