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• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Semantics, Complex Systems, (XSLT) Programs which Write Themselves
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:50:15 -0500
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Roger L. Costello scripsit:

> In the early 1900's there was a prediction that with the tremendous
> increase in telephone usage it would soon come to the point where every
> man, woman, and child would have to become a telephone operator!  Of
> course, that didn't happen.  Why?  Because the telephone switch was
> invented, which (mostly) obviated the need for telephone operators.

Another reading on this is that every man, woman, and child has indeed become
a telephone operator: we now connect calls ourselves, though not with
plugboards.

-- 
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