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tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">The behavior of agalmias gives us useful
information about the ways<br>
that societies can change and grow. Open source and free software<br>
communities provide us with excellent modern day agalmias for study,<br>
as does the Internet itself. But long term trends in technology<br>
suggest that material scarcity will likely become less common, and<br>
agalmic behavior more common. In studying the behavior of agalmias we<br>
can see intimations of our technological future.<br>
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Robert Levin<br>
Woodland Hills, California, US<br>
4 April 1999</div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:
monospace,courier new,courier;"><p style="font-family: tahoma; font-size:
10pt;"> </div><div>May I ask if you ran across this essay as a
consequence of hearing about Mr. Levin's hit-and-run bicycle death?<br></div>
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