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...logic is persuasive. Only one person can sit in a chair at any given time, so the concept of ownership is meaningful and necessary to the chair's use. In the same way, only one person can eat a sandwich. But a single piece of software can be used on one computer, or on 1,000 computers, without any harm to its "owner...
This is a dangerous concept to discuss without being accused of separatism at best and racism at worst. Identities are tricky things. Some define themselves by their contractions, their favorite sports, their religions or their political ideologies. Others drift culturally to those from the same geographical region. It is the very diversity of Harvard that forces us to specify which parts of our background are important to us. I am a Jewish public-school feminist from Seattle who writes for the Crimson. Most of my friends in at least one (if not more than one) of same categories...
...bets are off, however, when the TV revolution reaches its next stage. As interactive technology fully kicks in, the very concept of channels will start to disintegrate. Virtually everything will be instantly accessible to home viewers hooked into the new "full-service" (TV, computer and telephone) network. Not 500 channels, or even 5,000, but just one: your own channel that can call up anything...
...first concept that seems outdated in this post-channel world is the traditional network schedule. No need to be in front of the set at 6:30 p.m. for World News Tonight or at 9 o'clock on Mondays for Murphy Brown. Simply call up the show when you want it. The consumer, rather than the network, takes control of the schedule, and TV viewing becomes akin to browsing through a huge library and making a selection...
Marx used the concept of predict a proletarian revolution and the demise of the capitalist system. Gould, relying on similar principles of change in "Spasms," applies the view to a modern reworking of Darwinism...