4 ~ Friday, February 19, 1988 — North Shore News

Bos
HUNTER

_® strictly personal ¢

1 ACTUALLY have a theory about why the free trade
agreement won’t water down Canadian nationalism in the
least. In fact, it will have the opposite long-term effect of

enhancing Canadian identity!

Bear with me. It takes a minute
to get this across,

This theory isn't new, by the
way. I wrote a book about it which
was published back in 1970, titled
The Enemies of Anarchy. :

Strangely enough, I don’t think
it has been placed on any cur-
riculum anywhere, although you
can never tell. Under these cruel
circumstances, a writer comforts
himself with the thought that it
will be ‘‘discovered’’ a hundred
years from now as a visionary
analysis, Meanwhile, you can find
it in the library under Sociology/
Philosophy.

U, nlike

mechanical
technologies, which
have rolled across
whole continents,

JSorging gigantic
look-alike industrial
empires, electronic
technologies may be
reversing the trend
to's sameness.”

The 1 theory & was based on some
reading I had been doing in the
late 60s about the then-revolu-
tionary technique of computer-
building called Large-Scale In- .
tegration, also known as planar
defusion, which made computers
thousands of times more powerful
than they had been.

In much less than a nutshell, it
meant that whole arrays of circuits
could be -made from the same mi-
croscopic piece of semiconductor
material, which was going to lead,
I predicted boldly, to such wonders
as portable computers!

The main features of LSI tech-
niques were extremely high com-
ponent density and complex i inter-
connected networks in the
microchip itself.

The fact to be kept in mind is
that Large-Scale Integration de-
mands unique components, unique
interconnections, and, further,
unique interconnections of net-
works composed of “unique inter-
connected components.

- You said you’d bear with me,
remember?

The parts are not inter-
changeable. Unlike cogs, each
component contributes a highly-
defined function to the whole.

So, rather than having a
homogenizing or levelling effect,
technology i in its highest state was

: starting | to demand precise defini-
tion of its parts, making them all
unique again, as they. were, in
much cruder form, before the In-
dustrial Revolution began.

At the cutting edge, in other
words, unique becomes the norm.
More than being merely linked, as
in the days of the transistor, com-

ponents would be swimming, in
fact, in the same semiconductor
fluid, but with snowflake-like in-
dividual integrity.

Thinking about this, J had what
is known in the philosophy trade
as an apple-falling-on-your-head
experience: a flash, Did this reveal
an over-all pattern applicable to
human society as a whole?

I thought it did. I still do —
more than ever.

Unlike mechanical technologies,
which have rolied across whole
continents, forging gigantic look-
alike industrial empires, electronic
technologies may be reversing the
trend to sameness.

Instead of every street looking
the same and everyone speaking
the same language, as it looked for
a while it might become, a zillion
dialects will bloom and be main-
tained, and cultural diversity will
be everywhere amplified.

Back in the awesomely long-ago
‘60s, sitting at a typewriter, yet,
pecring into the future, here's
what I thought I saw:

“the end result will be a tech-
nological civilization in which
techniques are standardized and
universally applied, The economic
systems of cach country will
emerge as variations of the same
post-industrial theme. Electronic
communications, computers, and
so on will knit each complex na-
tional unit into an integrated
whale.

“Further, international alliances
and arrangements — the European
Common Market is only one ex-
ample of the many that are «apidly
coming into being -- will be work-
ed out so as to assure markets and
to: make small economic systems
into larger, more predictable, and
more controliable ones..

‘“*At the same time, however,
border lines, languages, customs,
and so on will not disappear. They
will, in fact, acquire new impor-
tance as dimensions of cultural
self-definition. Negroes will be
‘blacker’ and whites will be
‘whiter.’ ’”

Or, I might have added:
“Canucks, Canuckier."’

I appreciate that there is a con-
siderable act of intellectual faith
involved in taking a computer
manufacturing technique and ap-

- plying its principles to the behavior |

_of global society.

That’s what most of my book
was about: trying to build that
bridge. The conclusion:

What we are talking about in the
free trade deal is large-scale in-
tegration of economies, a good
thing in itself, which will lead to a
better, higher, more precise defini-
tion of Canada — a Canada much
more, not less, aware of itself, and
therefore stronger.

I doubt that this will be enough
to get John Turner to change his
mind about tearing up the trade
deal.

But [ hope he realizes he is
bucking my theory of Mega-
Change in The Later Part of the
20th Century. Woe unto him. &

NV man guilty of assault

A 28-YEAR-OLD North Van-
couver man received a three-year
suspended sentence Wednesday in
North Vancouver provincial court
after he pleaded guilty to a charge
of assaulting a female.

Christopher Car! Joseph was
originally charged with assault and

possession of a weapon dangerous
to the public in connection with a
Dec. 31, 1987 incident in which he
was alleged to have been in posses-
sion of a wooden board when a
fernale was assaulted.

The dangerous weapon charge
was dropped against Joseph.

Court puts bite on dog owner

WEST VANCOUVER law enforcement officials are
adamant about not allowing the district to go to the
dogs.

A West Vancouver man pleaded guilty Feb. 15 to
five counts of unlawfully allowing a dog at Jarge in
contravention to Section 22 of the West Vancouver
Dog, Tax, Kennel and Pound bylaw.

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count and $32 on the fifth count.

Wade faces an additional two charges of unlawfully
allowing a dog at large in the municipality.

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