Re: [silk] More from Bill Joy

[Sudhakar Chandra <thaths@xxxxxxxxx>]

Arsalan Zaidi proclaimed:
> He's got some points... but I really doubt you can halt progress by saying
> "It's illegal!"
> The whole "If you outlaw knowledge, only outlaws will have that knowledge"
> argument.
> Besides, there have been people saying this in every age.

Reminds me of a bit that James Burke (The 'Connections' guy) said in his
PARC lecture.  Inventions / discoveries have consequences that people
never imagined of.  The printing press indirectly contributed to the
Protestant Reformation, for example.  This is the very nature of change.

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