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Re: The "Future" Fallacy
At 7:24 AM 12/6/95, [email protected] wrote:
>From: Duncan Frissell
>
>Bill Gates (like Mister Newt before him) committed what I call the Future
>Fallacy in "The Road Ahead." Page 106.
>
>"Soon any child old enough to use a computer will be able to transmit coded
>messages that no government on earth will find easy to decipher."
>...................................................
>
>
>Billg is an optimist.
>
>What's wrong with this picture, Duncan?
I found nothing wrong or incorrect with the quote Duncan attributed to Bill
Gates (I haven't read Gates' book).
I couldn't understand Duncan's koan, shrugged, and moved on.
--Tim May
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