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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (64812)	6/9/2005 7:24:16 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Now, land is not quite, but almost irrelevant.<< That's because we currently rely on dense sources of energy like oil, gas, coal, and uranium. If we use it all up and switch to biofuels it will require a LOT of land with just a few farmers lying around in the switchgrass watching the clouds go by. Countries with lots of arable land per capita will be in the best financial shape. Brains will still be useful too, of course. Maybe some smart folks can build a fusion reactor that runs on helium-3 scooped up from the moon. Hmmm... I just remembered that I own an acre of land on the moon. Got the deed for $1 about 30 years ago from some guy on campus called "The Moonman". I bet it will appreciate like TOL, which hit ANOTHER new closing high today. I should loan it to TJ so he can short it! <ggg> Toll Brothers, Inc. (TOL) stockcharts.com[h,a]dacayiay[pb20!b50!f][vc60][iut!Lah10,30,5!Lc20]&pref=G Moon's Helium-3 Could Power Earth space.com

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (64812)	6/10/2005 8:06:37 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Maurice, I admire your persistence in a view that everyone keeps repeating, but never truly believing it. Maybe it was the dot.com crash that left only the true believers. Surprisingly, the Internet and its hosted applications (the new organisms) have a life of their own and seem to be getting richer and more complex. To move to the next step away from the geographical nation state model, how do you visualize the working of a cyberstate? Nation states sometimes seem like protection rackets. How would the cyberstate protection racket work? Will it have an army and a police larger than the nation states? Will this cyberstate protect the contracts agreed upon by its members? What will be the nature of crime and punishment? How much ever you deny geography, the physical punishment of being in a confined geographical location (a prison cell) is what deters some crime. -Arun >Also, empires and nations are communities of interest, traditionally based on geography when land was the primary means of production, with the eons-old territoriality built into brains during hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary battle. Now, land is not quite, but almost irrelevant.>