Working on an outline for a very serious, 8-page argument about technology, trying desperately not to be grim. This poured out after one of my Roman Numerals and made me laugh. I hope it makes somebody else laugh, too. Early man is to the earliest technology, as “a little bit later” man is to light speed technology today, which is to say that we most likely didn’t intend to make some of the mistakes we’ve made just as those uncoiffed cave dwellers probably didn’t mean to burn down their three-story bungalow and patio furniture, leaving them with little more than a cave with no plumbing and a campfire for checking email.
There is always room for discovery and improvement.
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