Re: Universal Translator need

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Stewart Brand
Wed, 15 Oct 97 15:58:40 PDT


At 3:36 PM -0500 9/8/97, wrote:
>And then perhaps I do want to resist needless platform drift. Many of
>those who upgrade on command risk eventually loosing track of the ability
>to read their own old love letters.

This sounds like a boon, of the sort Brian was commending.

MAYBE everything should be written on the wind. Might bring back the oral
tradition, among who knows what other benefits.

Still, one would like the option---to erase or preserve. Perpetual total
erasure could veer into deep ugly fast.