FM> In a world so dependent upon fuel and technology it is not difficult to
 FM> imagine, I think, a breakdown of enormous proportions that would strain
 FM> the collective intelligence of that technology to maintain equilibrium.
 FM> Artifacts might not be so local and so rapidly buried under accumulative
 FM> debris and life might more quickly approach the "primative" than has
 FM> been imagined.
 WE> Just consider Mir, a totally technological environment.  Just wait until
 WE> the next century, Earth will be looking like Mir.  Greenhouse is just
 WE> one example of the problems mounting.  Overpopulation another. Shall I
 WE> go on?  Just be glad that we lived so long already.
   Maybe.  Maybe not.  The future is still not ours to predict.  That's left
to the psychics and prophets.  We make our myths, just as the ancients did,
based on what they understood that they knew and didn't know and a 
ensitivity
for the difference.  
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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