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┌┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┐
├«»«»«»«»«»«»«»┼┤ NEW HORIZONS IN CONSTRUCTIVE CYBERPUNK ├┼┼«»«»«»«»┼┼┼┼┼┤
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤ THE CHAIN LETTER ├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┼┤
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├┼┼┼┼┼┼┼«»«»«»┼┼┤ Copyright (C) 1992 by Timothy Campbell ├┼┼┼┼┼«»«»«»┼┼┼┼┤
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What I propose below is ILLEGAL. DO NOT DO IT. Do NOT do it! Don't do it.
No. It's illegal! But still ... it would be fairly constructive, sort-of.
Create a chain letter that reads as follows:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Dear Citizen of the World, │
│ │
│ This is no ordinary chain letter. This chain letter lets you │
│ contribute to world happiness! At the bottom of this letter you will │
│ see how 10 people answered the question: │
│ │
│ "How do we make the world a better place to live in?" │
│ │
│ Cross off the one you like LEAST and write in your own answer. Then │
│ make 20 copies (or more) of this letter and mail it to friends. │
│ Within a short time, you will have helped make the entire world think │
│ about this important question, and the best answers. Your 20 letters │
│ can become 400, which can then become 8000, then 160,000, then │
│ 3,200,000. By the fifth copy of your letter, 64,000,000 copies of │
│ your answer may be in circulation, and one copy later, a quarter of │
│ the world can be considering YOUR answer! That's just six copies │
│ away! │
│ │
│ If this letter is hard to read, please retype it, along with the │
│ answers at the bottom. People will respect your answer more because │
│ you'll have shown you're a active worker for peace. Plus, YOU will │
│ know that YOU are DOING SOMETHING to help make this world a better │
│ place, instead of just talking about it! │
│ │
│ Our answers so far... │
│ │
│ 1. (etc.) │
│ 2. (etc.) │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Now make 500 copies of that (with 10 fake "solutions" at the bottom) and
mail 'em around. If the letter catches on, post offices everywhere will be
utterly paralyzed by the volume, and the governments of the world will HAVE
to open free data highways to everybody, just to keep the economy from going
belly up! (Since chain letters are very easy to detect as data, the data
highways would be immune to them.)
What? You thought I was just concerned about world peace? Hey, that's just
a side effect. Darn good one, too.
(NOTE: Don't do it. It's illegal. You'll get arrested. I'm not kidding.
REALLY don't do it. It won't work. Really.)