Re: near-anything boxes allowed to be in the hands of the public?

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 09:57:52 MST


> [GBurch1@aol.com thinks] things HAVE changed. ... truism that "generals
> always prepare to fight the last war" may have finally passed the time of its
> merit. This may simply be a function of the naturally conservative military
> command structure FINALLY coming to terms with the reality of steady
> technological progress.

Right! You almost said it here Greg. *Why* do you think this attitude
has finally changed? It because we have good battle simulators running
on our computers. Even ordinary proles like us can get to be pretty
good fighter pilots, strategy wise, from running these cheap games on
a cheap computer. This is the invention that changed everything. spike



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