Re: TURMEL: Money, Interest and Prosperity

Parker:  <**>Umm, I would invite all readers of this 
thread to google 'positive feedback', and find *one* 
credible source...<**>
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So, in the spirit of "credibility" he supplies a 
citation to a posting from a website bulletin board 
that anyone can post to, like this newsgroup.

I will repeat, there is nothing inherently 
"exponential" or "harmful" to positive feedback.  It 
depends very much on whether you as the designer 
intend for it to be there, or not.  The same can be 
said for negative feedback.

Notice he didn't respond to either of the two 
specific (among many other) historical examples I 
gave using positive feedback that made modern 
civilization possible, including the computers that 
we use to read and write these messages:  the clock 
escapement and the triode vacuum tube.

Yes, you can "google" and come up with all the nutty 
stuff in the world.  All the loony tunes need to do 
is to selective pick the particular nutty stuff that 
"proves" their case.

I believe that the "upside" of the Internet does on 
balance exceed the "downside" and will increasingly 
do so as we come to grips with this new medium.  But 
the downside is definitely something we need to be 
mindful of and not ignore.  It is currently providing 
an "exponentially growing" forum for loony tunes and 
pornographers.




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