On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:09:55 -0700, Robert Sturgeon
wrote:

By and large, no. The post-modern economy is primarily
concerned with symbol manipulation -- not the creation of
real goods. There is very little call for the ability to do
icky stuff like using tools. What is needed in today's

That is, they're all candidates for the "B Ark"...

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The working people and scientists put all of the marketing people,
telephone sanitizers and their ilk on the "B Ark", because "a
catastrophy was going to destroy the planet", and launched them all
out into space... (and the remaining 2/3 of the population stayed on
the planet, because no such disaster was imminent

Retief