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  1. Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a596
  3. From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey)
  4. Subject: Re: The Difference Engine
  5. Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
  6. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:12:52 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <20082@mindlink.bc.ca>
  8. Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
  9. Lines: 13
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  11. That was Babbage's #2 that was built and tested.
  12. It worked - but isn't that the point of the
  13. Difference Engine - a look at a society with
  14. computational power but a lack of the social
  15. development <loosely expressed> inherent in
  16. the movements that have preceded our own rise
  17. in such computational power?
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  19. What stands <rights> of privacy or freedoms
  20. of thought and speech given that setting and
  21. what sprawl would emerge from those givens?
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