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On 10/11/2011 11:40 AM, Alex Gakuru wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Marc
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<div>Thanks for the heads up Alex. I have some mixed feeling
about this as I am someone who wears two hats. So I'll throw
the delema out there and see what you all think.<br>
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You are welcome.<br>
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First - as the founder of the Church of Reality and a former
employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (sys admin -
not lawyer) I and a fierce defender of free speech and due
process, keeping the hands of governments off the Internet.
The Internet is actually considered a holy object in the
Church of Reality as it is the central factor driving human
evolution allowing us to evolve into something that increases
our chances of long term survival, so we can continue to
exist. If you fail to continue to exist then you are no longer
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Just wondering if it would be useful to have some sort of
discussion about this for the sake of clarity.<br>
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I read your "First" along question no. "<b>2 - With MOBILE
CONNECTIVITY many of us are living a life that is “always on” or
“hyperconnected.” Some people even say the Internet is an
extension of our brains and we are becoming cyborgs –
human-computer beings. How does being connected online all the
time change us as humans?</b> " <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Actually I agree that it is an extension of our brains. One can look
at all of humanity as a single giant organism that includes everyone
and all of our common technology. We are more like cells of a
greater being. Humans evolved language which allowed information to
be preserved and passed on. Then written language so information can
be passed across distance and time. Now we are in the computer age
which is super fast evolution. We are already cyborg in that we are
now completely dependent on our technology. The internet is the
nervous system of this common being and it is up to us to protect
the future of humanity.<br>
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