logic (alone) is never enough ? (OK - as close to a golden example as can be.. 'logically deduced'? ;-)

I'd rather run with your sententious 1-line sonnet, Welcome to 2002. May I introduce you to the concept of the "database"?

Voila! precisamente and all that: and the Heart of my periodic fulminations about this so-called Information Age, which I insist is neither more nor less than YAN..

..of an endless series of human follies, so aptly summarized by Bertie Russell.

..a near-prototype of our infinite capacity for EZ oversimplification of just about every complex situation we encounter

..ie It's another Black Tulip Craze. Period. {sigh}



Anyway, I think the author 'feels' the built-in contradictions, kinda gets a gnawing sense that all our cute principles contain always the Reverse as well as the Obverse: of some nice idea we wish would 'settle things'.

Now when the topic is really a meta-topic, ~ Information about Information (gathering? dissemination? security? access? ____?) Well, we can see where involution and recursion leave us: as far from [Truth] as usually we Are.

Prediction [!] We shall see voluminous scholarly, pedantic, folksy, wishy-washy and surgically-keen.. essays next,

as we-

trod inexorably-

down this-

slippery Path: of trying to keep the checks&balances just slightly ahead... of the malevolently greed-besotted folks who will use Any technology ---> in pursuit of Ayn-Randish Ideals (or by any Other fav name). Be sure also to intermix theological Certainties of all those Possessors of Revealed Truth: to confound our extrication from the morass, the chasm which:

I think I see Yawning like the event-horizon's periodic emissions nearby.. the Unviewable Black-Hole that draws us ---> in.


Of Course I can envision no 'solution' next, any more than Bertie could. He chose to illustrate what-we-always-do, via a squiggly line-drawing of opposing armies hacking.. away at each other. I can't improve upon his brevity.


Ashton
it's.. all.. happening.. in..

s l o w

m o t i o n.

time for some Dickie Wagner, I think.