Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Hawar Islands-Info request<br/>
Date: Nov 22, 2001 @ 07:16<br/>
Author: Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood &lt;bronto@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1204690612"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:orc@...">orc@...</a> wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; but please  anton<br/>
&gt; how can you even be curious about what might happen to our<br/>
&gt; existing boundaries myriads & chiliads of years from now<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt; idle curiosity i could understand<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; but this is freakin otiose<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>What if I told you I&#39;m writing a scifi novel set a million years from<br/>
now,<br/>
in which self-repairing robots continue to enforce laws set down in<br/>
2084?<br/>
<br/>
Well I&#39;m not, because I can&#39;t do plots; but I&#39;ve known people who wrote<br/>
similar stories, and most of my friends enjoy such speculations.<br/>
They help keep the mind limber.<br/>
<br/>
(I also believe there&#39;s a non-negligible chance that before 2036<br/>
technology will make most of us effectively immortal, one way or<br/>
another.  But that&#39;s OT.)<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
-- <br/>
Anton Sherwood  --  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ogre.nu/">http://www.ogre.nu/</a> (online again, Nov.19)</div>