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Step Back and Wonder

Posted by tball on May 11, 2007 at 11:13 AM | Comments (1)

"Are we sufficiently awed by our own technology?" Mark Morford, one of my favorite local (San Francisco) columnists, wrote an essay titled Talkin' To The Steering Wheel which seems like a pertinent closer to JavaOne. Sometimes we nerds need to step back and see how the technologies we have created and deployed world-wide over the years as the miracles they are (well, a few of them, anyway!).

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A tower to heaven, eh? Interesting to think about, so thanks for the thoughts, but it might be worth stepping out even a bit further to think about what it means - as in, why? - and where did all this stuff come from really? I think your term "miracle" is a valid word here.

Posted by: tompalmer on May 11, 2007 at 11:33 AM

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