++> Floating city: @ Popular Mechanics Feb. 1998
 
  In keeping with the idea that philosophy might be effected by
  how we live, and your interest in synthetic cities, there is
  an article in Pop Mechanics this month (5 pages/pictures)on
  the "Freedom", a floating city 1 mile long, two football fields
  wide and 25 stories high and able to sustain a permanent
  population of 50,000 (richy-ish) people. It would hug the coast
  following a permanent sun. They are presently searching for a
  company to build it. As you had similar ideas, I thought this
  might help in seeing the problems and expense of such an
  equivalent for animal/plant environmentalism......
 
  Also same magazine makes brief mention of firing currents
  through the metal electrodes of a single organic molecule
  sandwich. As it could lead to radical downsizing of transistors,
  If workable, billions of transistors could be placed on a
  single chip which would be "grown" as physical connectors could
  not be attached. .
 
     I could but wonder: ??? IF ??? a thinking network could be
 produced to think..., which of our favorite philosophers would
 our Spockish logic prefer??? 
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                     _/"0o\_ ... Dave
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