[lit-ideas] Re: Replicators: 200 John Donnes?
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:50:52 -0700
> This could easily become an apocalypse. After months of widespread
> consumer satisfaction, some dolt would set his replicator to
> 'AUTO-REPLICATE."
Wasn't it in Gulliver's Travels where the fellow shows up on an island where
the pebbles in
the road were diamonds, rubies, and gold? So he fills his pockets with these
pebbles.
Soon, he finds a roadhouse, goes in, had a large dinner, and, when asked to
pay, he reaches
in his pocket and scatters diamonds, rubies, and gold nuggets across the table.
The restaurant owner wasn't amused by the attempt to pay with pebbles.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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