[extropy-chat] a frightfully difficult sacred problem

[Dirk Bruere]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
To: "Dirk Bruere" <dirk at neopax.com>; "ExI chat list"
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] a frightfully difficult sacred problem


>
> --- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   Which reminds me of something someone posted in a NG to illustrate
> > what morons Moslems were.
> >   The poster was laughing at their assertion that the 'final days'
> > will be known to the faithful by several signs. A couple of which is
> > that pots and pans, and even bootlaces, will begin to talk.
> >
> >   Needless to say, it wasn't a tech forum, but I did point out the
> > irony involved in such ignorance.
>
> I wouldn't describe it as ignorance, I would describe it as a
> characterization of the sorts of communications media that oppressed
> political opposition might resort to in a world where all high
> technology media, and even mid and low tech like printed words are
> compromised by big brother oversight.
>
> American POWs have, in many conflicts, developed communications systems
> using tapping on metal objects: pots, pipes, bars, etc. to spread
> information under their guards noses. If every neighborhood has a few
> families that are in subversive cells, then they could spread alarms by
> morse code type signals on pots and pans, and intelligence could be
> shared by knot coding on boot laces.

That's not what I was referring to.
I was thinking about intelligence being built into just about every
appliance, including speech o/p.
Not to mention RFID and web enabled kitchenware.

Dirk

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