Bob Avery's comments got me to thinking, & J. Robert Oppenheimer's
comments on the Trinity nuclear detonation came back to haunt me:

"We knew the world would not be the same.  A few people laughed, a
few people cried.  Most people were silent.  I remembered the line
from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita ... 'I am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds.'  I suppose we all thought that, one way or
another."

The Bohdster has reached criticality, never to return to stasis. He
has become the anihilator of free disk space as we know it.  A
brilliant light has been ignited somewhere in the Southwest, rolling
across the desert, reflecting off mountains & clouds, radiating
outwards through cyberland.  [Could there be a screenplay in all
this?]  Give him a meg & he'll take a gig.  Give him a gig & he'll
take out servers across the planet.  Life as we know it may not be
tenable too much longer. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

--Doug Schwartz
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