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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S100 who wrote (2050)	9/4/2000 5:56:33 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12242

<It seems that SD has become the CDMA center of the world.> My theory is that it's much more than the CDMA centre of the world. In the early 1990s I drove all over the area [investigating QUALCOMM and the surroundings]. It seemed to me that it was like a new world being built on the Mesa! A huge transparent dome [50 km across] as in science fiction wouldn't have been out of place. There were fighter aircraft swooping around like wasps guarding the nest. There were swoopy roads and new shiny buildings by the dozen with new houses surrounding the area. Around the world, people mostly live in urban, crowded, dirty, poor and physical ways of life. Even downtown San Diego is the olde worlde. There on the Mesa, it is a world of cyberspace, mathematics, silicon, gallium and germanium, lasers and photons, vitual reality and code. Underpinning it is the legislative, political and military substance of the USA. The industrial revolution which grew out of England in the 19th century and the technological revolution which carried on through the 20th century largely replaced human brawn with electromechanical leverage. Mass production lowered unit costs hugely. But the industrial revolution grew from a billion people living a largely rural, uneducated, agricultural life. Now we have over 5 billion people, with many of them educated, citified, technologized, developing cyberspace and all that abstract and virtual stuff, from Globalstar phones to ecommerce and emoney. The cyberspace revolution is replacing our brains and that is a far more impressive and life-changing event for us than replacing our muscles. Animals have muscles too, so it wasn't such a big deal to replace those. Humans have always been the only things with brains. Not any more. It[TM] is looming. Already, humans will never again be the world chess champion and that was just a trivial start. Males have launched themselves into cyberspace to create It and do battle with It simultaneously. It is the new frontier. It's surprising to think that the new frontier is an abstract one. Mostly, people thought of outer space as the place where the adventuring would be. Mostly they still do. In a weird inversion, it suddenly turns out that inner space and the abstract is the big new challenge. We are like Shrodinger's cat, netfunny.com but we are going to bust out of the box by turning the box inside out so we are on the outside looking in - then we'll shrink the box to a pinpoint and take over the universe. Yeah!! A kind of everywhere, but nowhere challenge. Sort of like the Cosmos Microwave background radiation [which maybe holds some secrets] is everywhere but nowhere. A bit like a photon is everywhere but nowhere until observed. Out of San Diego, The New Paradigm is appearing. It will consume all! The New Paradigm tentacles will spread to every niche of the planet, far faster and far more impactful than the spread of the British Empire based on the industrial revolution and the British legal, judicial and military systems, which were trivial compared with what's around in the USA. Just as the Industrial Revolution largely came from England but superseded England, cyberspace and It[TM] will largely come from the USA [and San Diego/San Jose/Allentown etc] but will supersede the USA. The Industrial Revolution was a weak joke compared with what 'San Diego' on the Mesa under the dome has in store for us. Meanwhile, more prosaically, what's Peter Lynch's carpark theory? Nothing to do with Shrodinger's Cat I assume. Mqurice