Timely example of IT systems and human hubris assuming no possibility of certain failure modes: http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/the-untold-story-of-qf72-what-happens-whe... On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:49:50PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Be warned fellow humans.
This is from a man who spoke nearly 100 years ago, of things we are yet to see, but which we now agree are entirely foreseeable.
100 years ago computers did not yet exist. Yet the prediction of their inevitability and the worse things yet to be (quite possibly) seen.
And yes, a hint at an approach or "prescription" if you will to forge a different pathway into the future.
But who can name such a pathway, even after reading this lecture transcription?
http://southerncrossreview.org/112/steiner-evolution-extraterrestrials.html Evolution and Extraterrerestials
Rudolf Steiner
A Lecture given at Dornach on May 13, 1921 for members of the Anthroposophical Society(GA 204)
(From a shorthand report not revised by the lecturer.)