On Aug 10, 2004, at 5:30 AM, D. Jay Newman wrote:
>
>> my question is if you built such a machine
>> could you in good conscience turn it off?
>>
It doesn't matter so much, since you can back it up to offline storage
and turn it back on again.  Or duplicated it as much as you want.
That's a big FEATURE of digital; lossless copy/backup.  (used rather
effectively in Hogan's "The Two Faces of Tomorrow")

BillW

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