On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:27 AM, David G. Mackay <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 12:29 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:24 AM, David G. Mackay <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Does this mean the change can't happen? No it just means that you need >> to be aware that you need to build a cultural consensus. > > Change is not only happening, it's accelerating. Vernor Vinge coined > the term technological singularity to describe what we might be > experiencing soon. It doesn't seem to be something that we're going to > be able to control all that much. > Well we are going to have to.. because what usually happens in societies where change goes on too fast, people fall out of caring about the current society and find 'easy' solutions to control it: Fascism, Communism, or just modern Anti-Intellectualism. When people start calling for Desktop Dictators to make the boot-times faster its a sign that even the people addicted to the adrenaline of our ADHD lifestyle want someone else to think for them. If I don't have to think because others do it for me.. I am ok because the pack will take care of me. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
