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Subject: Re: Frankenstein (was Dystopia cont.)
Date: 8 Sep 1995 12:45:56 GMT
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In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Omar Haneef '96) writes:



>Technology has the potential to rob us of humanity: witness
> Gibson's meat puppets or Rucker's Meaties or Cadigan's Synner or Sterling's
> human chemical factories.

Technology is an intregal part of our humanity. Humans can't NOT do
technology. I would argue that technology is part of what makes us
human. Are Case & Molly any less human for their toys?



> We haven't lost it yet.

No and we're not gonna but our dfinition of what constitutes "human"
will change. Would a Cro Magnan describe us as "post" human or even
human at all?

Remember kiddies: It's always dystopia somewhere.
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