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Jim's Quote of the Day:
"Whole nations depends on technology. Stop the wheels for two days and
you'd have riots. No place is more than two meals from a revolution. Think
of Los
Angeles or New York with no electricity. Or a longer view, fertilizer plants
stop. Or a longer view yet, no new technology for ten years. What happens to
our standard of living?... Yet the damned fools won't pay ten minutes' attention
a day to science and technology. How many people know what they're doing? Where
do these carpets come from? The clothes you're wearing? What do carburetors
do? Where do sesame seeds come from? Do you know? Does one voter out of thirty?
They won't spend ten minutes a day thinking about the technology that keeps
them alive." - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's
Hammer
