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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: World population benchmark
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Date: Wed, 16-Jul-86 19:14:15 EDT
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In article <1021@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
>Probably there _are_ people alive today, many people, whom the future will
>regard as geniuses (if any historical record of this time survives).  But
>geniuses tend not to be recognized in their own time, so we don't know
>who they are yet.  To discover whether something is of lasting value,
>it is usually necessary to wait 50 or 100 years and see if it's still
>valuable.  If just anyone (Phil Ngai, for instance) could tell, then we
>would _all_ be geniuses, wouldn't we?

I don't think it takes a genius to recognize the work of a genius.
The invention of the light bulb, telephone, transistors and molecular
biology all seem obviously great developments.
-- 
 The US Army uses 22 caliber size bullets in their assault rifles (M-16).

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