How new millennium is failing to live up to expectations
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4109543,00.html
By the year 2001, we confidently expected to see computers doing our
housework, trains as fast as bullets, a cure for the common cold and
holidays on Venus.
Instead we have enslavement to keyboards, Railtrack and multinational
companies plotting to patent our genes - and we are still sniffling. The
future has failed us and we feel it keenly, said an NOP poll published
yesterday.
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I didn't participate in this survey, but I can tell you that when I was 15
years old, I fully expected to die in combat someday on some muddy Asian
soil. Things have turned out altogether differently than I had expected,
and I may owe my life to the atom bomb. Without nuclear weapons, I
probably would have been drafted and sent off to war, there to die with
millions of others. The bomb made the war cold. Thanks to all the
scientists who continue to make total war unthinkable by making possible
weapons of mass destruction.
Happy Newtonmas,
--J. R.
3M TA3
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Useless hypotheses: consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind,
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