The garden of earthly delights
will
be reserved for the meek, and
those
who would eat of the tree of
knowledge
must be banished. What a banishment
it
will be! Beyond Earth, in all
directions,
lies limitless outer space,
a worthy
arena for vigorous growth in
every
physical and mental dimension.
Hans Moravec
Communication is hard. Especially when your friends have a different
ontological basis and
always try to update their mental architecture after the latest fashions
in their home polises.
But it is always possible to go back to the pidgin of our shared past.
It is oldfashioned, slow, serial and quite limited, but it has a certain
atavistic charm.
Besides, it is so hard to agree on a new standard - homo sapiens will
remain for a long time.