Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
To   : comp.programming
From : Chris Sonnack
Date : Wed Aug 24 2005 01:43 pm

Randy Howard writes:

>>> So you think the Internet means the end of national sovereignty?
>> 
>> With any luck it'll be the harbinger of it.
>> (And good riddance.)
> 
> Doesn't your position rely on the (from here untenable) position 
> that all that matters on the world happens on a computer?

No.  A harbinger is an indicator, not a cause.  The cause is the
long time commoditization of travel and the more recent globalizing
of communications.  McLuhan's Global Village is all but here.

Several years ago, I sat up all night and watched--in real time--
a war taking place on the other side of the world.

Long ago, when singer Tom Jones had his own tv show and his guest
of the week was Dione Warwick, they sang a duet about how someday
we'll all be coffee-colored people.

I think that day is inevitable.

Of course, by then, I suppose we'll have found other things to
fight each other over.  We always do.

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