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

To: foundation who wrote (2594)	1/28/2001 4:16:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 12231

Thanks for that Ben. Indeed, that is right up my alley. One of the consequences of all that CDNA and It business is that people are increasingly separated from their hunter/gatherer/agrarian/tribal genetic foundations in which our DNA makes most sense. We [our DNA] no longer make sense, even in the ways of the world developed over the past 100 years [and since the industrial revolution and the advent of the big, anonymous, nomadic, cities]. We sublimate various drives such as in sport, recreational fishing and the like. But we don't do very well in sublimating appetite - obesity is prevalent and the Battle of the Bulge in both military and waistline terms has been a 20th century curse of 'progress'. We can now blow up 100s of millions of people in minutes with nukes and blow up our waistlines and health in supermarkets full of what is called food, but has little likeness to the real thing. This is progress, but progress with a problem. For those who can cope, it's great. For those who can't, the digital divide is going to increase at a great rate. Eugenics is continuing with a vengeance [of course it's not called that, but it's continuing anyway]. The digital divide is much more than a matter of who has computers and who hasn't. It's a matter of who is able to operate happily in the modern world with the complexity of it all. This is the time of one of those leaps of punctuated equilibrium go.com in evolutionary history, when a new species forms. Our close relationship with chimpanzees is going to suddenly change over the next 100 years. Talk about genies out of bottles. Eating fruit from the tree of knowledge - we are making utter pigs of ourselves. Our DNA foundations are too rickety to sustain the way of life already created and being created at high speed. Prozac is popular because our way of life doesn't fit our foundations. It's fine for some people and they are causing load on the others who can't cope, because the olde worlde way of being, for which we are fairly-well fitted is disappearing quickly. That's always been the case, but it's happening really quickly now and will accelerate as those who become CDNA creations develop superhuman powers. Visit Los Angeles and then rural Africa to see how big the gap has become between societies. Within Los Angeles, an even bigger gap is forming between individuals. A comet splashdown in the Pacific won't discriminate among those individuals in Los Angeles so it isn't necessarily the most important advantage to be a CDNA type in Beverley Hills instead of a common DNA random selection in El Segundo. Better to be anything further above sea level. Here are a couple of Cyborgs. This one is simply a server on the internet with firewalls and stuff. Does it look like a good place to call 'home'. I suppose it's not really any different from calling 'home' the inside of a bony skull covered in hair and prone to being hit with a meat cleaver, bullet or falling masonry. go.com This one is a feminist, socialist, dialectic deconstructionist, neo-jargonistic tract which gives another point of view: go.com The concept of male and female in a CDNA world will have less meaning. The basis of sexual reproduction is the need to mix and match DNA, keeping the gene pool stirred up and resilient, passing new DNA around for cruel survival experiments - only the fit and lucky survive. With CDNA, that vast biological foundation becomes meaningless. Notice how QUALCOMM is strategically located well above sea level in San Diego. It would take a close or large comet to send the ocean over them. Ashley has his canoe at the ready and is also well above sea-level, with a spendid view of it approaching. Mqurice