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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (4750)	10/13/2001 7:15:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<...history in connection to energy, any good links in terms of the future and plans in that part of world??> No, sorry. Energy production and usage improvements are incremental and economic [unless Con-Fusion can be brought to fruition in which case fossil fuels would go the way of the horseshoe]. The telecosm is making 3D activity less important [economically if not recreationally] and hence oil less important. My overall position is that there is a huge surplus of hydrocarbons and they'll never run out. As Sheik Yamani said, the stone age didn't end for want of stones and the oil age won't end for lack of oil. He is one of my favourite people. I think the United Nations should take over Afghanistan as a self-governing protectorate, get bids for an oil pipeline south to the Arabian Sea and use oil transport, or perhaps oil itself, to fund development. I don't know if there's much oil in Afghanistan, but I think there would be, given the tectonic juncture from the Urals region down through Iran to Saudi Arabia. It's like a huge oil production belt from eons past. This whole WTC-derived anti-terrorist drama is a bit of a sideshow. In fact, millions of Americans [and millions more around the world] have common cause with Osama but don't realize it. I know they would be appalled to be put in that category, but here's why. The division is not between Islam and the West, backed by Geri Halliwell and her nudey rudey dance troupe heathen infidels independent.co.uk It's not about Palestine, American soldiers in the land of Mecca or even whether Osama bin Liner gets to be chief alpha male of Saudi Arabia and the Moslem world, keeper of the Haj and head of 1 billion Islam followers. It's about IT versus people. Cyberspace barely blinked as the WTC crumbled in flames and mayhem. Even the worst-affected company, which lost most of their colleagues barely blinked an eye before they were back on line from back-up premises. Cyberspace is spreading It's tentacles and mutating faster than an influenza epidemic on a 747. The world is dividing into those with It and those who oppose it [or don't have it]. I watched "2001 A Space Odyssey" again yesterday [it is 2001 after all] and the video of Osama in his rocky hole in the ground with his henchmen, holding his microphone and battling against the world, was reminiscent of The Dawn of Man in the opening sequence. He has improved quite a lot because instead of holding a large bone with which to beat the opposition, he held a microphone. His supporters held boxcutters. But USS Enterprise and the panoply of technology arrayed in space and flying unmanned with GPS guidance against him, is not far removed from the Hal9000-controlled world. Ted Kaczynski, Osama bin Laden, Timothy McVeigh, Anti-Globalisation, Anti-WTO, Anti-Genetic Modification, Anti-Free Trade, Anti-Technology and all the other "Stop the world I want to get off" are singing the same tune. They fear the obviously rapidly developing power of technology and loss of control and understanding of it and the world they live in. They fear the loss of individuality to a globalized political entity in thrall to the technology Frankenstein Monster. They know and are correct that humans are not designed to live like this. We are nearer to Dawn of Man than we are to the metaphysical God-beings we revere. God was created in the fantasy image of man. Man wasn't created in the image of God. The irony is that humans are in the process of creating a supernatural It which is our destiny. Supernatural in the sense only that Dawn Of Man beings have no more ability to comprehend It than a tuatua [a kind of sand-dwelling shellfish] can comprehend the life and times of the WTC. Those who avoid and oppose that destiny are denying the very thing they purport to revere [a supreme concept of humans in relation to the cosmos] and to which they bow 5 times a day in the Moslem world and to which George Bush, Bill Clinton and others pray. So, the true battle lines are drawn not between USA and Osama, nor between Islam and a Christianity-Judaism nexus, nor between west and east, nor is it over oil or Palestine or Israel or who gets to rule Saudi Arabia. It's between the Dawn of Man Luddites and It. The human Telecosmic aficionados are just the foot soldiers for Cyberspace. But it's not really a battle any more than a river is in a battle to get to the ocean. It just flows downhill, propelled by the forces of nature; fusion, evaporation, dew point, gravity. When it meets a barrier, it fills and overflows and erodes. It's just a matter of time; how strong the flow and how long it takes to overflow the opposition. I think the battle will be brief because people benefit so much from technology as it develops. They will accept being subsumed into a graviton.com cyberspace controlled world, [initially run by human political institutions], because they will feel much safer, not to mention wealthier. We will very quickly be accustomed to It [especially newly-born people]. We will feel safe because aircraft will be GPS-and cyberspace controlled instead of pilot controlled, people will always be identified, their position always known, their communications always monitored [oh, that makes some people blanche, but it's already done]. We'll be like a cell in a body. Happy to do our little bit and a lot safer being an individual in an ocean of bin Ladens, and Ted Kaczynskis. Cyberspace and machines will do the heavy lifting and keep an eye on things. CDMA [code division multiple access] and CDNA [cyber deoxyribonucleic acid] in perfect harmony. From the sidelines, Mqurice