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Originally Posted by jamesdmanley
how often does anyone ever change another's mind?
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...it happened to me. It took about...3 years, but eventually the light came on.
At the end of the day this particular thing really is about philosophy, ethics and legality.
All of these things thru out the course of mankind's history have been challenged, and changed.
This is yet another one of those challenges. How do you define a *truly* new "thing" using old words and concepts?
There has never been anything like digital technology in the hands of the masses. How many trekkie/trekker types have you know pine for technologies posited in that milieu, without giving any thought whatsoever as to what would happen if they actually existed?
Digital replication is a lot like replicator technology. That's what you are dealing with. Machines that can make perfect, or near perfect copies of a thing, in perpetuity.
No one puts a dime into a replicator. They tell it what they want and they get it. Its "the future"...say hello.
Now...how do you deal with it? Marx? Rand? Mussolini?
Or do we come up with something else?
There is no other place to have these discussions..because they effect no place else
