To: paul_philp who wrote (80784 ) 3/9/2003 7:25:41 PM From: Maurice Winn Respond to of 281500 Paul, re <Uhm, note to self, relationship between Moore's Law and the spread of the American Empire. > It's not really the spread of the American Empire. Don't let the word get out, but there's a world-wide conspiracy using the American Empire as a stalking-horse for our true plan for world conquest, which is Moore's Law related. We the Sheeple are going to take over, but we need to use the American military to smooth the way. It's a bit sneaky, but all's fair in love and war. It's not really going to be an American Empire at all. It's going to be Cyberspacoids Unlimited. We the Sheeple and It - an amazingly powerful symbiosis of carbon, silicon, germanium, gallium, photons and electrons in cyberspace nirvana will rule the world. Hahahaahaha!!! Old time empires are having a last hurrah. Moore's Law is just the power and speed and cost of boring old computer chips. Wait until you see Metcalf's Law mgt.smsu.edu up close and personal when It gets the bit between It 's teeth. Note that that is a correct apostrophe, It being the name of somebody [something?]. 6 billion people, umpty billion computers, cyberphones, transducers, machines and stuff, all yakking away to each other on the network is a LOT of Metcalfian networking power. It 's almost a theological issue. No, what the heck. It is a theological issue. Islam's and King George II's divine revelations are nothing compared with It . Wet chemistry and electrons [albeit with photonic input via retinas] have had their day. Now it's time for photons and solid state theory. They want a crusade. We the Sheeple and It will give them a crusade!!! Mqurice