Feb 2, 1999

For years whenever I offered a Moon Landing newspaper for sale in one of my
catalogs of historical newspapers (I'm retired now), I referred to the
event as "The most important event in the recorded history of mankind
(religious considerations aside)".  I don't feel that way anymore.

Now I think the two things the twentieth century will be remembered for (in
addition to the Moon Landing, which will be remembered thousands of years
from now) are:

The computer/internet team, which has revolutionized communications, and
will continue to do so until government finds a way to spoil it (for our
own good, to be sure),

The genetics/DNA/cloning discoveries, which bid certain to change many ways
in which we humans have always lived.

In my opinion the latter two are much more important than the moon landing.

-Jim Lyons
http://www.jimlyons.com
Volunteer, Museum of Ameuican History, Palo Alto, Calif.
Volunteer, Moffett Field Museum, Sunnyvale, Calif.