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To: The Verve who wrote (6001)	1/7/2001 3:51:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 196740

<How you found yourself one day marketing hydrocarbons is beyond me. Your career counselor should be flogged.> Actually, I liked what I did to earn a crust. It sure beat sitting in the same civil engineering design office every day [which lasted only a few months]. I was able to see thousands of businesses and government efforts and dig into them in great detail. I went from Nickel/Zirconium nuclear power plant tube makers to farming to aircraft and tyre makers and coal-mining, dam-building, steel mills, paper mills, ships, machine shops, washing machine makers, knife makers, flight simulators and every little thing which people do all day in the physical world, all of which needs oil - the industrial age was an amazing creation which most people never see other than their own little piece of it. It was much better to see real stuff than to make up fiction, even if science fiction. I first became strongly aware of how we are building an interconnected 'thing' in Antwerp [in 1987] where there are many factories, supplying each other, almost on automatic. The nuclear power plant supplies the oil refinery and car plant which gets tyres and plastics from nearby factories and hey presto, new cars come rolling off the production line, onto trains and off to the customers, 1000s of kilometres away. There are not many people needed to keep these things humming. The companies are owned and run by international companies and staff, which are in turn owned by international individuals [me and you]. The world is increasingly co-mingled. By night it was eerie. A few cars in the parking lots, while the factories hummed away. Most people do things which the internet can take over = disintermediation [Amazon as one example - today I ordered 'The Fountainhead' which will arrive on my doorstep from the USA without a warehouse, bookshop, sales clerk, till, security van to collect the money, banking the money, etc]. The industrial revolution replaced the hard yakker on the shop floor and on the farms. Now, the same thing is going to happen in CyberSpace But this will replace our brains, whereas the industrial revolution replaced our muscle. And we are just getting started! CyberSpace will put paid to Amazon.com. I will read something direct on my 'Reader' tablet wireless-Internet gadget in high quality print with images, video clips and sound. QUALCOMM will be the creator of this service. Go Q! Go. Mqurice PS: The nearest thing I had to a career counselor was when [age 12 or so] going to leave primary school for high school, they said we had to think what we wanted to do because we needed to choose courses. I had never imagined I would have to do anything other than ride my bicycle, fire my shanghai, dig underground huts, climb the mountain and lie in the grass looking at clouds. Education was a mostly dismal affair suffered in government-run stultifiers with beatings meted out to anyone 'stepping out of line' - [which I didn't do much]. 'Education' made me dislike collectivism and the idea of 'our' people.