Re: [xml-dev] Too much power? was RE: [xml-dev] 2007 Predictions

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

Len Bullard wrote:

> This thread is trying to make the case that a college library with math 
> texts in 1964 was as popular as a drive in theatre showing Dr No.   It 
> just ain’t so.  I leave it to your own tastes and research to determine 
> which was more powerful or had a greater influence on the culture of 
> 2007.  Better yet, ask your Mom and Dad which would have been a more 
> likely place for you to have been conceived.
> 
>  

No contest. The math library. After all, in 1964 computer science was 
just a funny subfield of math. No math libraries in 1964 ==> no web in 
2004.

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