Please read the two linked posts. A longer post now is unnecessary! I will return to a second mug of coffee and some other reading. Back here later.
Please read the two linked posts. A longer post now is unnecessary! I will return to a second mug of coffee and some other reading. Back here later.
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I read the two linked posts, and I'm not sure if I ever read "I Tell You, It's True" (I don't have a copy of CONFLICT). But it certainly seems interesting, so I hope the story is in one of my other collections of Anderson's works.
There have been rumors lately of hostile actors (terrorists or unfriendly gov'ts) using machines negatively affecting the mental and physical health of American officials, in and out of the US. So this Anderson story may be becoming an actuality.
And such a device might even explain the bungling and incompetence of "Josip" and the Democrats! Altho I would put far more stress on bad ideas and policies giving us only bad results.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I would attribute government performance to ideas and policies rather than to clandestine manipulative technologies!
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And I mostly agree! Bad ideas and bad policies gives only bad results. Which doesn't mean I don't think it's impossible such devices could be invented.
Ad astra! Sean
I think that Poul’s point is that you cannot un-know or dis-invent. If something is technologically possible and there’s an incentive to using it, it will be used.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Again, I agree! If something is possible or known to exist, it will be used by SOMEBODY. So there might be something to those rumors I mentioned.
And we have been seeing a lot about UFOs lately. I have been reading about too many reports by serious, sober, TRAINED observers about UFOs to dismiss them all. Even the most ruthless culling leaves us with too many such reports to honestly reject them all. Which was one of the points made by Anderson himself in "Peek! I See You!," his UFO story.
Ad astra! Sean
UFOs certainly exist: UNIDENTIFIED flying objects, not objects that have yet been identified as extraterrestrial spacecraft.
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