To: LLCF who wrote (4435 ) 6/8/2001 4:32:18 AM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (4) | Respond to <...Can you give a brief synopsis of the type of changes you see that support your claim that the internet is bigger than the internal combustion engine or electricity for example??? For instance, I see that the internet shopping has wiped out catelogue shopping over the phone since I can now see them online [sadly someone should tell the catelogue companies this and I keep getting the damn things in the mail] and order without talking to anyone... You must be seeing that retail stores will be closing en masse at the VERY LEAST to support such a claim... what else??? >IT is that it will want to be for IT 's own sake, not as a shopping catalogue for people buying electronic systems to play gutter rap. Humans are not the only things which have a sense of self. We are in the process of creating something with a sense of self. Maybe humans won't be needed at all and we are just a kind of zeolite molecular sieve for producing the next piece of consciousness in the earth area, just as chimps were the jig from which humans were created by the mindless random work of DNA evolution. With applied intellect, the next stage of evolution should be very, very fast. I suppose when females started choosing smart men as mates, human evolution got a very fast acceleration too. But not as fast as will happen with cyberspace because human gestation and development takes at least 20 years, whereas electronics can be cloned and redesigned in the space of months [or days or hours in another 20 years].
