No, we don't - repeat, don't have the technology to do exactly what the movie showed. OK? However, we've been doing essentially the same thing for decades. Try the best-seller "Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." A truly good read, anyway. One of the very rare unique takes on basic questions of philosophy. Pirsig, the author, died and was reborn, essentially. He had a breakdown, and they built him a new personality, after using shock "therapy" to destroy what was left of th...

To understand the full context of this piece, you may want to go to my article "Speaking for the Dead." Do a find on "Iran." The Left - and most other political "activists" - like to talk. Ranting is the be-all and end-all, and if it boils down to a competition for a tiny core audience, then any tactic that works is justified in the name of the revolution. In point of fact, in 1980, when Reagan took office, the local left, centered around KPFK (which was just then starting the sl...