Re: democratic communication

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On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 11:51 , Grant Callaghan wrote:

> I'd say that once it reaches the stage where it is secret, it has
> become political. When it reaches the stange where it's for sale, it's
> engineering. Science is what happens before we reach these stages.
> But then, that's only one man's opinion.

That sounds about right, although, 'for sale' looks more like marketing- engineering is a grey area- could be implementational and technological, which, well, needs support.... Politics mixed with corporate interests. Smells like capitalism.

At any rate, science is an early, always gestational stage, as all purity must cease.

- Wade

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