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To: Ilaine who wrote (18465)	4/26/2002 7:59:58 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

...after having done 1300+ km so far on my trekk through Europe, I can just say, atavistic be damned, walking is fun. From some window seat up at 30000ft you'd never guess our world is so big and so beautiful. dj

To: Ilaine who wrote (18465)	4/26/2002 7:07:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

CB, MAD Magazine in the 1960s did a story [cartoons] about American legs becoming evolutionary vestigial organs with Americans looking like overweight bowling pins due to their propensity to avoid walking; driving 100 metres along a road for example, to visit a friend. Our bodies are what we are and walking is a major part of natural behaviour, left out of our lifestyle at our peril. So I'm not some wacko Segway fan because I think walking is best avoided [I walk a lot - into the city, golf, bush walks]. But sometimes, walking is too time consuming for what's needed and cars are like a sledgehammer to crack a walnut - I don't envisage swarms of Segways swooping along the freeway. My guess is that as cyberspace takes over the paperwork, humans will do more of what we are good at, which is dealing with people and doing physical tasks of a non-repetitive nature [repetitive, but with variations which make machines unable to cope]. My guess is also that there will be far fewer people but they will be new, improved versions, with cleaned up DNA [leave out the rotten bits: herald.co.nz ] and enhanced DNA [clip in the high IQ DNA, good memory, good T-cells, melanin - bald guys probably would like some hair] Mq