another historically significant race


An AltaVista Search brings up about 1500 references to "the tortoise and the hare", though an inordinant amount of them seem to refer to reviews or advertisements for children’s games of that name. A few minutes of checking out those references (and paring the hits down to about a thousand by eliminating “CD” and “software” from the search list) brought me to a few passable versions of the tale, though not Aesop’s:

They all seem to make the same, important, point, though none of them seem to stretch the metaphor by alluding to the hubris of technology.


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