Seven Ages

[Child of the 7th Age]

As you can see from my name on this board, I obviously have an interest in this topic. The letter and footnote identified by Sharku are the ones I used to derive my own name. I'm not aware of any additional examples. If anyone knows of any others, please let me know about them here.

We, by comparison, have all become quite at home with machines and industry. We all have computers and internet access, obviously.

Littlemanpoet -- You general analysis is great, but I guess I have questions about some of the above quote. Maybe it was because many of my values were defined in communes during the 60s, but I truly don't feel at home with machines and industry. I know that I have to use them to survive. Just to show you how adverse a reaction I have, I didn't drive a car until about ten years ago. Of course, it helps to live in East coast cities.

And computers....the technology is there, but we still have chunks of society with very limited access. Believe me, I do tutoring in the immigrant community where computers are the exception rather than the rule. And I am truly not comfortable on computers, as my children are. I am afraid if I push a button the whole thing will go up in smoke. So your last description is basically correct, but perhaps should be softened somewhat and viewed as an ongoing process.

[ May 23, 2002: Message edited by: Child of the 7th Age ]