[extropy-chat] Greg Egan's poem "Technoliberation"

[Gregory Propf]

mike99 wrote:

>Technoliberation
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>by nat (public)
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>It is not true that the map of freedom will be complete
>with the erasure of the last invidious border
>when it remains for us to chart the attractors of thunder
>and delineate the arrhythmias of drought
>to reveal the molecular dialects of forest and savanna
>as rich as a thousand human tongues
>and to comprehend the deepest history of our passions
>ancient beyond mythology's reach
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>So I declare that no corporation holds a monopoly on numbers
>no patent can encompass zero and one
>no nation has sovereignty over adenine and guanine
>no empire rules the quantum waves
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>And there must be room for all at the celebration of understanding
>for there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold
>imposed by force, resisted
>or escaped.
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>[Greg Egan as Muteba Kazadi]
>https://ideotrope.org/index.pl?node_id=28479
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Thanks!  Now I need find out about this Muteba Kazadi person.  The stuff 
on the web about him is all in Italian it seems./
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