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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1291)	12/22/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 12242

OT >>Let's hope the gap increases more and more and more and faster and faster. The poor don't get poorer. The well-off just get better-off. The better-off then drag the rest along because they invent amazing things like CDMA cellphones which people who can barely count can afford to buy with their low-paid jobs.<< Maurice, seems like this goes along with what you said above... "It is 2020, 100 miles west of Umtata in the Transkei region of the Republic of South Africa. A teenage Xhosa cattle herder notices strange behavior in his herd. He uses a satellite-linked wireless handheld phone to message the Health Office in Port Elizabeth. The health officer is Zulu, not Xhosa, and while he speaks English as well as Zulu, the herder speaks only Xhosa. No matter. The herder's written description of the symptoms are automatically translated into English and directly fed into an expert veterinarian program. The program diagnosis is encephalitis. The database indicates that all cattle in that region were inoculated recently. The health officer realizes that a new mutated strain of tsetse-fly-vectored encephalitis is emerging. Fortunately, it has been reported early enough to do something about it." from: techweb.com P.S. My local cell phone outfit just opened a new office in my neighborhood. I asked them about Globalstar, but they've never heard of it. Oh well, one of these days...