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To: elmatador who wrote (44533)	1/11/2004 9:41:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

ElM, I don't buy the idea that minds have a natural size. Countries are just agglomerations of minds. If powerful minds work in harmony, they don't have a natural limit, especially when turbocharged with artificial brainpower in the form of It. The USA with 300 million brains within the borders and a billion or so outside the borders, all feeding into the system, is pretty much unlimited. Chinese CDMA researchers are employed by QUALCOMM and other CDMA companies and their achievements all feed into the USA system. Indian software programmers are feeding into the system from Bangalore [and all over the place]. If there is a limit, it's so far away it's not going to matter for a few decades at least. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (44533)	1/12/2004 11:43:41 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

>> five years time -I expect the next enlargement round then- Russia will be candidate to be part of the EU, together with Ucrania and Romania. By 2010/2012 will the Central Asia's turn...<< China (and HK - Jay, stop sleeping on the watch, willya!?) by 2020, Australia by 2030, Africa by 2040. NAFTA by 2050. Antarctica by 2060 (Penguins? Bring them on!), Inavut and Grönland by 2070. Mars by 2525. etc -----------------------------