In a message dated 7/9/98 5:46:51 PM Central Daylight Time, harv@gate.net writes:
> I want to show them my computers
> and state that those who can keep up with the technology will rule the
> future. I don't want to unlock my gun cabinet and explain that those
> who are better armed will rule the future.
Yeah...reality sucks.
And I agree with what you said. (including that which I didn't copy)...but I
don't see any solution with present day implemented technology. Particulary
when govenment is falling down on its job...and the social mores that
prevailed in the fifties (check out the violence stats for that time frame...)
have changed so much.
AND I don't see any easy way to return to those days. A society is an
ecology. There are certain "progenitor species" that prepare it and then go
away. The progenitors that prepaired society for its instantiation of the
fifties era are no where to be seen...and similar ones are
(hopefully....<great depression...infant mortality....other great
hardships>....not on the horizon)...
Scientists, Technicians and Engineers I mean.
>From the dawn of life it's always been an "arms race"...arms against armor.
So how about if you techie types come up with better armor and some kind of
non lethal offensive armament that could be as useful as firearms? Because
it's always GONNA be an arms race...all the wishfulness and happy thinking
isn't gonna change things.
My guess would be (given what little I know of present day tech) that a
portable laser might be used to ionize a pathway thru the air such that it
might conduct an electric current. Kind of a "cow prod at a distance"...or a
taser without the wires.
A nonlethal device that no one would be seriously hurt
Or some other kind of a "stunner".
EvMick