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To: willcousa who wrote (291524)	8/29/2002 11:38:22 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What have you borrowed from the world? I was being philosophical. We all borrow the elements of our very body, plus air and water and food. All that is given back to the planet sooner or later. What have I borrowed to build a computer chip? Number one I borrowed the great knowledge of math, materials science, logic, and language necessary to understand the current state of computer chips. This knowlege was not locked up as the exclusive property of the sons and daughters of the original thinker (The knowledge of who is the right banker, agent, or handshake is often locked away in generational vaults). You also can't build the next computer without a pretty good version of the current computer. That means that gold mines were dug around the world to plate the pin leads, oil was pumped to form the plastic caseing, and the factories which extruded the plastic were already in place with all their resources and personel. All this is borrowed because there isn't time in one life to recreate the necessary technology. Finally there is a future in the world or else there would be no incentive to have a next generation computer chip. The brighter that future,the more incentive there is to create something, create it well, and try to be sucessfull. That future also includes geneations of chips beyond the next, if and only if the advancements of this one are bequithed to some future thinker to borrow. It's really much the same with hard assets, except they are easier to hoard,and so they are. TP