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<see you on the other side of the time portal, and when there, no, you cannot have any of my Pt>
Jay, perhaps we are going to part company and will not meet on the other side of the time portal, which you so rightly identified as the dividing line between the worlds.
Notice how the following quote [in bold] has a very strong time component to it. The movies are a sequence of time as are the books a verbal description of it. Notice the shift from the 3D to cyberspace.
I think platinum, gold, steel, rubber and asphalt won't squeeze through the portal. They will cease to have meaning just as a horseshoe is now a relic of times gone by. I suppose you can stay in the olde worlde and make money selling platinum horseshoes and stuff, but I suspect that as always, the big money will be in the new realm.
Aztecs shone their culture with gold.
Prozac People moved their world with platinum.
Cyberspacoids will disappear into nowhere and everywhere.
We are in the process of defining a new reality. For good or ill, we are on our way. Just as people pop Prozac to cope with the exigencies of the mad, mad world of the freeway, suburbia, the cubicle and the mall, we might find the Alice In Wonderland world we are entering a bit beyond our natures, but we enter it anyway and find it better than living in the WTC, Tora Bora, Calcutta or Ted Kaczynski's Montana hut.
<Slowly, generation by generation, people are growing accustomed to working with invisible tools. Computer hardware costing thousands of dollars is routinely abandoned as outmoded junk a few years after purchase, while the software and the data are carefully copied onto the new machine. Year by year, the furniture of existence — clocks, calendars, appointment books, records, photographs, novels, movies, even money — is slowly replaced by digital counterparts.
As the substance behind these products leaks away, it becomes clearer that people have been buying and selling information all along. Binding it between book covers or shrink-wrapping it in boxes just camouflaged it while the world learned to recognize that something need not have heft to be real.>
When we can change our DNA at will, we will start to investigate just what 'will' means. Things will really get interesting then. We might even find that will is not free [but actually costs much more and is more profitable than platinum... heh, heh, good joke eh?]
CDNA and CDMA will be the new reality.
CDNA = cyber deoxyribonucleic acid
CDMA = code division multiple access
That's where the big bucks are.
I went looking in Google for Sheik Yamani's quote which I've always liked [the bold part below] and as usual, Google gave me really good bonus stuff, so I include it here. google.com
<"OPEC has a very short memory. It will pay a heavy price for not acting in 1999 to control oil prices. Now it is too late," he told Reuters' Richard Mably. "The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stones and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.
"I think prices might go a bit higher this winter but further ahead in 2001 prices will start to come down and longer term it is horrible for OPEC."
Yamani's thesis is that $30-plus oil has already driven the West down an irreversible path toward using high tech to reduce, and probably eliminate, our reliance on imported oil.
Yamani again: "Technology is a real enemy for OPEC. Technology will reduce consumption and increase production from areas outside OPEC. The real victims will be countries like Saudi Arabia with huge reserves which they can do nothing with -- the oil will stay in the ground forever.">
The iron age, bronze age, gold, platinum, palladium and uranium ages won't end for lack of those metals either.
I'm stepping into the portal!
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