From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Jun 09 1999 - 22:56:17 MDT
den Otter wrote:
> True. The question is: will that technology ever become evenly
> destributed? Note that while giving everyone an equal opportunity
> is fine, it would of course be *very* stupid to intentionally make
> some other race "superior". The same goes for artificial "races",
> (i.e. AIs) of course...
I have been reading in The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.
They have reached the depressing conclusion that equality and
freedom are mutually exclusive in a sense. If goverments will
leave us alone (like most of us would like) then even small
inherent differences among us will lead to exponentially increasing
levels of technology, perhaps leading to a situation where a dozen
people achieve immortality while the masses die. spike
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