<The truly new ideas cannot come from the legally trained and bureaucratically incubated politicians wishing for sycophantic admiration of street mobs and who do not want to learn about what they cannot possibly understand. To start with, they do not even know what they do not know.
I think we must look elsewhere. There may already be some signs, and these may yet turn out to be false signs.
I believe changes are rarely obvious, until one fine day, boom, abracadabra, they are upon us.>
Jay, it's a pondering day here too [wintry, with hot water drinks, not cold].
It was nice to read such an optimistic review from you. So we are agreed on the outcome - it is always good. Now it's just a matter of correctly guessing the scope of the downward dip into restructured societies.
But you hooked me with those comments. Linux developed outside the approved methods. Cyberspace allows hordes of people to link and form bonds, tribes and to proliferate and develop ideas.
I wonder if the mechanism for a revamped international political operating system to be developed will be a bit like the Linux system.
Bounce it around cyberspace for a few years, gathering steam and design quality, reflected, picked apart, improved upon, popularized and enhanced until it becomes the preferred rule book for people in a revised international system and national ways of life.
Then it rolls unstoppably around the world and is adopted by most countries as obviously the best way to run the show.
I'm sure that cyberspace is going to do a lot more than provide a means for sending text messages, ogling naked females, ranting about investments and stuff like that.
Communities form because of common interests. I dare say many of us are forming communities of interests via cyberspace which are in many respects more important than our 3D lives [partly because our money, but also our knowledge, is in cyberspace and watching the hip pocket is a popular human activity].
We, The People, might just take charge ourselves. We can run the world on line. Make the leaders follow.
Hmmmm. I will watch this [cyber] space evolve with interest. Meanwhile, I will continue to invest in building it [via QUALCOMM] because I believe it's the best thing going.
Good suggestion Jay! Thanks.
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