<pre> From: hagbard@cosmo.UUCP (K. Koch) Subject: This Forum Keywords: Computer Politics Philosophy Date: 11 Jan 89 18:42:47 GMT Reply-To: hagbard@cosmo.UUCP (K. Koch) Org.: CosmoNet, D-3000 Hannover 1, FRG Lines: 47 COMPOPHIL form = COMPUTER + POLITICS + PHILOSOPHY These are the generic terms of this forum. This forum is supposed to be DEM Exchange forum about computers + politics + philosophy. The possibilities are, through UUCP, give. Here are all areas of the computer, with politics and Being connected with philosophy is eagerly discussed. The computer, much more what you do with it, influences meanwhile almost every area of ​​life. Computers run our accounts, make phone calls, control robots (who take us on one side jobs and create new ones on the other, but less ...), our children are trained by and with him, they guide Rocket missile heads into their target, control oil tankers, scan the genetic code of human DNA and do much more. Man leaves the computer, with the help of the software he developed, take on many tasks. The future is that man has only the tasks, which the computer should adopt, properly formulate, and the computer then programs itself. Even nowadays you have to slowly ask yourself if we have the computer control us or he us. Calculate computers based on data collected by other computers the respective world security situation (NORAD, etc.). Computer solve in the last years again and again, both in the West and certainly in the East, the highest alert because a chip did not work or because the test tape, which simulates a rocket attack unnoticed in the system. was guessing. Computer simulations analyze global relationships, between Trade statistics, population data, foreign policy rela- and domestic developments. Officials and politicians can also let us of such Influence simulations in their decisions. Only the politicians are not threatened in their existence yet ... -------------------------------------------------- ---------------- I hope for a bit Discussion material to have delivered (or is there just consent?). Greeting Hagbard Celine </pre>