[ExI] 23andSingularity

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 7 17:53:58 UTC 2013


On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 1:39 PM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
> Point taken.  Three people look at each other.  One spends most of his time
> grubbing around trying to feed himself and his family, one spends her time
> reading magazines about the latest celebrity and trying to score tickets to
> a local hip hop concert, one posts to the internet about how to save money
> on health insurance.  Each looks at the other two and says “What a useless
> wasted life is that.”
>
> Our corner of humanity is not humanity.  The rest of it, I have no access.
> My part is the part of humanity that I know about and care about.

Right.  Regardless of 'lightspeed delays' in the hive mind, we're
already worlds apart in our collective.




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