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From: kazim@Apple.COM (Alex Kazim)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,alt.cyberspace,alt.cyberpunk.tech,news.groups
Subject: Re: Cyberpunk/space/tech/virtual-reality
Summary: Agreeing with Maddox?  Ack!
Keywords: Gibson, Bombs, Conscience
Message-ID: <37193@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 22:42:12 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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I have to agree with Tom on the separation of alt.cyberX.  Science Fiction
is an amazing tool for letting people see just what kind of effect this
neato technology will have.  Sure it'll change the world, but for the better 
or worse?

For those of you who've seen _Fat Man and Little Boy_, the crisis of 
conscience the scientists have at the end seems a little late.  Did it
not occur to any of them just what they were creating, that this wasn't
an exercise in mental masturbation?

Do computers help?  Do computers allow certain unnamed chemical companies
to build better plants (in Bhopal), or allow them to make more money by
building cheaper, less safe plants.

Who pulled the trigger, the gun or you?

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Alex Kazim, Apple Computer
These are my own opinions and not connected with the directors or
shareholders of Apple Computer Inc.  Furthermore, all references to
large chemical companies with plants in India that killed people are  
ficticious.
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