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If you think the pace of change
has become too fast, consider that
the brakes may already be on.

Fast change happens in a field
only briefly, before opposing
forces have time to appear.

    An example I've heard:
    Medical advances advance
    at a crawl, in part because
    of the near impossibility of
    doing experiments on human
    volunteers.

    And this may be the era
    when computer code
    catches a legal code.

         Oh, and that idea for          NUKE
         a new improved nuclear
         power plant?  Good luck...

Many people *don't like change*
They work hard to to slow it             And in all honesty,
down, and the legal system is            it's hard to blame
a favorite technique.                    them because it often
                                         seems that most
   Another: voting for a                 innnovations suck in
   standard political                    retrospect if not sooner.
   slimeball because
   you're used to having
   them around.                                      DRAG

     Idealists, after all,                  CHOPSTICKS_OF_THE_MIND
     can be pretty scary
     beasts.






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