I know how unreliable memory is, and yet, I still know I trust it more then I should (though at the same time, if I get too distrustful of it, I'll stop being able to function, so it's a trade-off there) ... I'm wondering how 'life-logs' will affect things.

Oh yeah, Clarissa does not take no for an answer, and a bunch from the earlier generation are not shrinking violets either. I don't think the children of the lens really count, they aren't even human, they just do a good job of faking it. Though given hints, both in the book, and in other comments the author had apparently made, they were also going to take a Greek god approach to other things as well. If he ever had written the sequel, I'm not sure how it would have gone down.

Yes, there _are_ statistical differences, but they aren't very meaningful when dealing with individuals. And even if you were going to try and follow the statistics in assigning jobs, one of the implications of that is that we shouldn't be letting guys fly fighter jets. That's one I always like to bring up any-time somebody starts trying to wave around the 'but men and woman are different' thing. :)

-- Brett