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[Jeff Yowell]

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> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 21:03, Jeff Yowell wrote:
>> Just as with cars, "your mileage may vary...."
>> 
> I would almost agree Jeff but computers are way ahead of cars.  It is
> really the wrong technological comparison.  You might not have heard but
> it was said during the 80's that had a Rolls Royce improved as fast as
> computer technology did THEN a RR would THEN had cost pennies.  We are
> WAY beyond that now and today an RR would be without ANY value.  Think
> about it.
> 
> A better technological comparison might be amoungst knives. For
> instance, comparing a samauri tanto or modern ceramic diamond edge vs. a
> flint rock shaped cutting edge of the Stone Age era.  OR Historically a
> Bowie v. a Spanish sword, which is historically the reason why the
> Spanish sword fell into disuse in the Old West.  The Bowie knife was an
> advance at a time when guns were yet still unreliable and took too much
> time to fiddle with.
> 
> Maybe a page of the Outward Bound survival school or even Boy Scouts
> camping manual would be a better statement in this discussion.  The
> right tool used the right way is beyond evaluation.  The venerable Euell
> Gibbons comes to mind with that one, as does Heidegger who wrote in many
> tomes that the appropriate mastery and use of technology is not really
> about what is made but how well one THINKS and to what depth of THOUGHT
> a Dasein proceeds and expands into regarding the World.
> 
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