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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3)	6/25/2000 1:58:00 AM
From: ISOMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7

now, maybe you could put that in english... or better yet... ISOMAN...I speak tool and hammer, with a drywall dialect...

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (3)	6/26/2000 1:49:00 AM
From: Bill on the Hill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7

Moores Law?? The one that talks about chip power doubling every few years? From a few transistors to pentiums in 25 years. Remember the 6 transistor radio and only AM frequency? Now it is night vision windshield and Global Positioning for the lettuce crop on the way in from Mexico. Gives you an up to the minute update on when your salad will arrive. Cheap localized power grids able to produce for a penny a KW? Better short some utility grid stocks. Except maybe they will be buying all that can be produced? When you figure that the electricity consumption of most appliances and households seems to be decreasing I still expect the fuel cell technologies to be the dominant player in the alternative fuel stocks. The smaller units lend themselves to decentralized production which means many more units. From Gilder article 12/31/1999. (note the date headed into the unknown.....) Gilder shedding light for the new millenium. My opinion only. Sounds to me like he is speaking about not only Moore's Law but also about the power generation model these guys are working toward. Not specifically..... but still. ********************************************************** After Matter's Overthrow The essence of the change is the overthrow of matter. One manifestation of it, stressed by Alan Greenspan in recent speeches, is falling commodity prices and other trends signifying the declining contribution of material resources to global added value. We have soared higher and, literally, become lighter. The weight in tons of U.S. gross domestic product has dropped 25% in the past two decades, while its value has more than doubled. These trends all have their roots in the scientific revolution of quantum theory at the turn of the last century, when it was discovered that the assumed source of the solidity of matter--the atom--is as empty in proportion to the size of its nucleus as the solar system is empty in proportion to the size of the sun. The discoveries of the quantum era allowed the manipulation of the inner structure of matter, and unleashed the power of microelectronics to change the inner structure of society. A centrifugal force, it made cheap personal computers more powerful in impact than the most ambitious supercomputer of a decade before, flinging intelligence to the fringes of all networks, industries, and organizations. Lending new meaning to the maxim that knowledge is power, hierarchies and top-down organizations tumbled into heterarchies, knowledge freely flowed across peer networks of powerful technicians and engineers, and CEOs bowed to the superior learning of their nominal subordinates. ********************************************************** Bill