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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (11037)	6/4/2003 12:35:12 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 306849

IMO the tide will turn on Bill Joy's central concern in "The Future Doesn't Need Us", whether tech will end up giving us the means to save or annihilate ourselves. We've got about 20 years to find out, I predict. That's why I'm out in the country on some land, with heavy equipment, helping others do the same. Every 50 years or so a completely unanticipated change in tech occurs. This time it could be energy, bioscience or informational. Or all three. If we can avoid corrupt power-mongers from unleashing a plague, we'll probably make to the other side of these "interesting times". Meanwhile, re: economics - when you think about it, its only a requirement that we somehow get to accurate accounting of goods and services exchange, and a few trillion here or there... what's a few trillion among friends? <g> It's an absolutely astounding "reset" of expectations to suddenly see in print the number "$44 Trillion in Debt", and the controlled media stifles yawns, while the confused populace feels a bit... er, uneasy. (Obviously that's what Rummie was thinking when he casually announced $2.3 trillion "unaccounted for" at DOD... he was saying, "hey, we're all friends here, right? you trust us, right?" LOL!)