On 12-19-97 DAY BROWN wrote to John Boone... 
 
        Hello Day and thanks for writing, 
  
 DB> Well, John. I have a pretty good idea of the two most likely ends 
 DB> mankind will see.  One is the expansion of communication such as  
 DB> we use right now and the increasing persuasiveness of technology  
 DB> and the information it makes available for us to base decisions  
 DB> on... to the point where everyone knows everything and comes to a  
 DB> compleat agreement, as in heaven.  
   
  Day, I am not sure, given -any- two people having the same 
information will be in complete agreement.  They in fact 
may weight things differently thus arriving at different 
conclusions.  
  
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 DB> SO: the value system I advocate is to try to buy some time. I live 
 DB> in a remote rural area, and have enough stored food to survive a  
 DB> year of chaos if I am not found by it.  I have also, as you see by  
 DB> the presence of this message, communication with the technocracy  
 DB> as it evolves, and try to learn, and profit by it.  I just do not  
 DB> have all my eggs in that basket.  
    
  Ok,  I wish you well.  All, I ask is that you don't make 
me -share- the same trade-offs.  
  
 DB> The occasional talk of financial panic suggests that society is 
 DB> dimly aware of the the danger, but no one has suggested that it  
 DB> might be a good idea to reconstruct simpler production methods of  
 DB> essentials independent of the global technocracy as a backup.  
    
  Such has been the case for many thousands of years. 
  
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Take care, 
Merry Christmas, 
John 
 
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