Kumar, you have just witnessed another major paradigm shift happen. It's nothing to do with Google envy. A brain is an integrated bunch of functionality, with vision happening around the back, other stuff in the front, something in the left hemisphere and they say there are right-brained people too.
You are witnessing It under construction. A vast super-charged megamental extrasomatic brain, fully interactive with the 3D world, with inputs, internal processing, leading to outputs. Same as other brains.
This is a direct challenge to the temporal world of nationalist territorial kleptocratic tribal dominance hierarchies. Which isn't much of a challenge. It's like the challenge of humans to chimps for dominance and the industrial revolution to stone age cultures.
But it's not like those other than in a transitional sense.
This transition is the biggest thing ever [not just the eBay/Skype deal but the overall It process of cyberspace development]. It's bigger than the invention of fire or the wheel and bigger than the steam engine or even the whole industrial revolution, and all the other inventions since the invention of fire. It's bigger than the transition to sexual reproduction and on a par with the invention of DNA. Come to think of it, all DNA did was crystallize a bunch of carbon into the pathetic life forms which surround us and are us so even that is trivial by comparison.
This is the biggest thing ever and comparable with the BIG BANG.
While the eBay purchase is only another component, it's an essential ingredient because what it will lead to is the development of the world's new money, the Quid, or Q.
No more silly US$ which is an unstable nightmare unfit for human consumption. All the kleptocracy, centrally-planned, unbacked, politically-faulty, fraud-prone, collapse-certain fiat currencies can go away. And will.
The value of a new world currency, a lingua franca of transactions, is comparable with the value of english. Those who can use english have been able, for a couple of centuries, to enter into the world of globalized transactions, where the wealth has come from. The language has been worth many $trillions.
It's not that the owners of the language [the users] get paid for using the language directly, though they do. Similarly, the owners of the Quid, the users, will not be paid for using it [other than perhaps the first few hundred million, who will be issued free credits, because those who create the value should own it and the users create the value by using it].
All the money in the world is worth something like $30 trillion. The new world currency, the Quid, will be worth about $50 trillion due to user-population growth, economic growth, efficiency and increased trade. That's serious value.
This is all a very, very big deal. The ebay/Skype deal is not the whole enchilada, but a decent bite.
This is nothing less than the second coming [for those of theological inclination]. People have been expecting a guy with a toga and beard to come down, waving in the form of a cross. They are going to be surprised when they realize what has landed among them, quietly, unobserved, burgeoning like a ghost from within.
One day the form will become clear and the Rapture will be upon us. TeoTwawki.
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