Theos-Talk Archives (June 1998 Message tt00512)

At 01:31 PM 6/21/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>Anybody else get a #238 with no messages in it??   Ha!  "With each
>innovation follows a shadow."    HPB says somewhere too, that for every
>little step made forward, the whole surrounding world has to be lifted
>(unconsciously?) to a degree also, and the surrounding world objects.  I

   This makes sense. As our actions every minute affect others near and in
some cases far off from us, it is bound to affect in however minute way the
whole society. There was a discussion between Krishnaji and a well known
scientist on this issue.


>figure this Internet stuff will take 20-30 years to "level off" and be
>successfully integrated into Society sufficiently to be consistently
>reliable, including getting the malicious hacker types accountable to laws
>(if we last that long!)

Considering the speed with which Internet usage is expanding and also the
fact a small segment of very active group can initiate changes of enormous
magnitude, I think it may not take that long.

>                                                        -  Jake
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