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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (80435)	9/15/2000 6:36:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

I got a PM from somebody...here it is... It doesn't sound like the paradigm shift I had in mind! Sounds messy. ==========================================================Hi Maurice, read your posting. here is my response > QUALCOMM is going to be the ringleader > CLs then getting a communications IT revolution > CLs wondering what the hell IT was coming to > CLs using It[TM] instead of their brain > CLs being told what It wanted For my money, that completely misses out biological innovations and nanotechnology, and biological warfare released by children doing their science lesson on the cold virus, and people incorporating computing power into their brain, and computers incorporating brains into themselves. Think more in terms of thousands of private nations with private armies, here-today gone-in-a-month collaborations once single individuals can build and release a new Ebola virus or compile a new car out of sand. Think of enclaves of civil intelligent people, separated from others by a gap so large it is no longer perceived as being present. Think of renegade groups in that outer circle experimenting with new forms of genetic and information mutation and attempting to either destroy or supplant the power enclaves. > QUALCOMM is creating [with a bit of help from JDSU, SDLI and all that crowd] > nothing less than a new life-form on this planet. What computation does QCOM do? What AI have they even begun to build? QCOM seems to define itself as "efficient use of limited bandwidth". If they became like Lucent and created additional technologies (wireless Ethernet for instance) then they would be bigger, but I still don't wake up in the night thinking of QCOM being the biggest company in the galaxy. There will be unlimited communication occurring, but transmitting information is not going to generate unlimited wealth: there are too many cheap alternatives. The unlimited wealth is in content: both information generation and compiling new material objects based on these new information algorithms. It will cost a lot to get boot strapped, maybe more than any one company or even an one sector can muster, but that sounds to me either like a diversified Microsoft, or Zaibatsu-like Capital families. Ideas? =========================================================== Yes! Here's my idea: My head hurts. I'm going to 3D now. Mqurice

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (80435)	9/15/2000 6:36:51 PM
From: waverider	Respond to of 152472

>>>which was better than running after a pig to kill it with a knife to get dinner!<<< you must have missed our 1st castle party

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (80435)	9/16/2000 3:33:15 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

re: "Okay, there were some steel axes or something in the 17th century [and they used some to decapitate a lot of French aristocrats]," You really should just stop talking about history, because in every post, your make in clear you don't have a clue about what century things happened in. In the 17th Century, the French aristocrats were quite secure in their power, and none were getting their heads cut off. It was during the French Revolution (late 1700s, that's the end of the 18th Century), that the French aristocracy got decapitated. And they didn't use axes. How can you be so certain about the broad pattern, when you get all the details wrong? I've forgotten what your original point was.