From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 95 01:29:24 PST
To: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: The "Future" Fallacy
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On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Timothy C. May wrote:

> At 7:24 AM 12/6/95, blancw@accessone.com wrote:
> >From: Duncan Frissell
> >
> >Bill Gates (like Mister Newt before him) committed what I call the Future
> >Fallacy in "The Road Ahead."  Page 106.
> >
> >"Soon any child old enough to use a computer will be able to transmit coded
> >messages that no government on earth will find easy to decipher."
> >...................................................
> >
> >
> >Billg is an optimist.
> >
> >What's wrong with this picture, Duncan?
> 
> I found nothing wrong or incorrect with the quote Duncan attributed to Bill
> Gates (I haven't read Gates' book).
> 
> I couldn't understand Duncan's koan, shrugged, and moved on.
> 

I think Duncan was mad at the 'soon.'  Why not today?

> --Tim May
> 
> Views here are not the views of my Internet Service Provider or Government.
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> 
> 
> 

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