Re: how extraordinary the people of the future may be...

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Dec 05 1999 - 03:55:47 MST


At 22:21 1999/12/04 -0800, John Grigg wrote:
> This future world will be a great place to live but it will mean even
more to us having lived through these times. We will be in a position
like > > no others to appreciate the wonders of the future.

Thanks for that self-kindness exercise. I would profit to remember that
periodically.

Heck, I already appreciate some things in _this future_ more than
latecomers: LEDs are still magical when I think about them. They're "Yeah,
so?" to people who grew up in a world that had always had these cold
crystalline light sources built into practically everything. (<--rhetoric)

MMB



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