"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." --Hunter S. Thompson Decision of technology Revision of the future Social uncomformity Mother Earth on Ecstasy Children on-line, not a dark horizon coming, but the dawn........ If, in the last few years, you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. - Gelett Burgess - "We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities." --Pogo Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road..... -- Stuart Brand, "The Media Lab" --- nothing interesting ever happens at the center. Everything interesting is out at the edges Richard Kadrey Bruce Sterling, in the introduction to the 1980s sf collection > _Mirrorshades_, wrote that at one time scientific and technological > literacy led to a plain old sense of wonder, but by the 1980s it evoked > "outright ecstasy and dread". Now's the time to be alive to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure. David Eddings The Tofflers' notion of civilizations sweeping the globe in Waves makes sense to me. I just wish I could locate more lifeguards. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space. Liz maryland My feet are bleeding From surfing the cutting edge: I'm in future shock. Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow. "The world will turn strange, soon" Eugene Leitl "Living on the edge is perilious, but the view more than compensates" Zen Saying