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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (323297)	9/9/2009 4:07:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 793958

Compuserve!!! Argghhh.... it seems like yesterday. It almost was - 1993 isn't long ago. Not even 20 years and what a stupendously phenomenal change is underway. I would buy week old Asian Wall Street Journals to try to get news on things in the USA [Qualcomm information]. The Auckland Public Library had racks of CDs with information on them which was updated regularly but didn't really have much at all. Compuserve was hideously expensive. Get ready to log in, have a plan all ready, GO! Hunt around. Download small amounts of information. Disconnect. Start breathing again. Now it's lie here, comfy in bed with a Zenbu Wi-Fi link to broadband costing next to nothing, cerfing around with vast realms of information available everywhere and absurdly smart search functions [Bing, Google etc] and Yahoo! providing financial intricacies on everything and free voice and video calling around the world [on Skype among other things]. Google Earth to swoop around the planet and zoom in to anywhere. Just ridiculously phenomenal information and intelligence available for no cost [near zero cost]. I don't even have fibre which is available by moving house which might even be worth it. Broadband is near enough for now. It's the biggest paradigm shift to happen in biological history. Bigger than all previous inventions combined. It's a bigger deal than genetic engineering even if we genetically engineer our brains up another notch or 10. It's a bigger deal than the invention of DNA which only gave us wet chemistry brains weighing 1 kg with hopeless reaction times, poor recall, tendency to drinking booze and other neurotoxins if not actually unconscious asleep, dies a few decades after being born and after only a couple of decades of fully functional fully learned intellectual performance of minuscule proportions. Mqurice

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