[ExI] not yet nanobots, but micro-bots

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
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Regarding Clarke's Profiles of the Future, I am sending two photos, in separate postings for a reason, which I will explain.  This is the front side of the mug… {photo cut out for a reason}

 

This is the other side of the mug:

 



 

I was on one of those programs which was is so secret even I don’t know what I am doing.

 

We were at a project board meeting, and I was one of the junior guys back in those days, not even in management, just an engineering and technology lead, invited to hang with the big kids.

 

They were trying to come up with a slogan for the program.  The guys at the wooden table were coming up with lame ideas, but we all knew they sucked, all of them.

 

So… the top dog said to us in the peanut gallery: any ideas, engineers?

 

I uttered the phrase written by Clarke, the words burned into my mental retinas.  It got really quiet.  He said: Spike say that again.  I repeated it, and said it was a direct quote from Arthur C. Clarke.

 

The big guys voted, it was unanimous, that comment from Profiles of the Future became our program official slogan.

 

My corollary to Clarke’s third law:  Any sufficiently Arthur-Clarke-like person is virtually indistinguishable from god.

 

That man saw it all.

 

spike 

 

 

 

 

 

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