From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 02:01:41 MDT
Oh and by the way, I saw France passed an "anti-cult" law this last week.
So I guess we'll have to stay out of there from now on :0
When do we get past the cult phase? 100k members? :-)
Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Broderick is a well-known writer of science fiction, and the central
> McGuffin of The Spike is taken, with generous acknowledgment, from another
> well-known writer of science fiction, Vernor Vinge, who coined the term and
> pioneered the concept of "the Spike," and, on the evidence of this book at
> least, would seem to have become the central prophet of a little cult that
> has formed around it.
>
> [etc]
-- Brian Atkins Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.singinst.org/
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