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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] antiscience from both sides<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think traditional campuses will always be needed. But I don’t think they need to be as big as they are.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I’m jealous of people like (apparently) yourself who see no difference between digital products and physical ones…<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SR Ballard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi SR, I do see a difference between digital products and physical ones: the digital ones are better. You can do more with them, such as search for a text or phrase you found amusing. I treasure my PG Wodehouse digital collection. My ambition is to become Jeeves when I grow up.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I had an idea based on the response one of my scouts received from the office of a senator. The requirement was to write to any political leader expressing an opinion on any topic. She received a letter back which was easily recognized as a generic form letter, but on the topic of the scout’s letter.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It occurred to me that a software could read the letter (assuming it was typed) pick out key words and fashion a response that generally hit the topics of the letter. It might be a collection of paragraphs on various topics for instance, chosen by keywords from the incoming letter. If we did this with sufficient skill, a letter writer might never realize the communication was never seen by a human. The response could be generated, printed, folded, placed in an envelope, addressed and sent, every bit of it automated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Electronic mail would be even easier. We could have a digital politician.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>