"think of an economy where people could be an artist a photographer, a writer, without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. Or that people could start a business and be entrapenurial and take risks but not be job locked because a child has asthma, or someone in the family is bipolar you name it any condition is job locking"Think of the land where such an economy would exist, where lollipops grow on trees and the rivers flow with milk and honey. Nobody ever grows old, and adults never send you off to bed. Just imagine such a place, and vote it into existence!
-- Nancy Pelosi
So what is a "daemon"? The origin of the word is Greek and refers to a minor spirit. As related to computers, it dates back to the 60s and MIT's project MAC. They took the term from "Maxwell's Demon," a hypothetical creature able to let only the hot air molecules flow into a favored side of a split chamber. Somehow this seems appropriate for me.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
In The Land of Milk and Honey
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