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To: Slagle who wrote (68155)	8/28/2005 8:39:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<I just don't get it with the cyberspace stuff. What do you expect people to do, sit around naked (so they consume no raw materials) and jabber on the cell phone all the time?> Yes. What cyberspace does is make things a great deal easier which used to be done in very difficult expensive ways. Such as buying an airline ticket or renting a car in another country to be ready for one's arrival. It also enables things which were never done before such as machine to machine transactions. Transducers on a pipeline in NZ can talk to production plants in Germany and tell them to stop or increase production. Being more wealthy enables people to go and live naked in hot climates, conducting their business via cyberspace. That will save them a lot of money and fuel, instead of living in freezing London, commuting on bomb clogged trains, to crowded H5N1 polluted office buildings, where they hand write software. They will live in the south of France, with their laptop and Iridigm screen for easy reading on the beach. They will need only buy a loin cloth. No SUV fuel required [if they previously lived in Los Angeles]. People who are adept at using cyberspace do things a lot differently from the bad old days. The 'shortage' of energy isn't a worry because energy is a small part of GDP per capita input costs. Which means for individuals, they can afford to buy energy much easier than in 1975, and even more so 1980. I have just returned to NZ from a loin cloth period in the northern hemisphere sun belts. Now I turn on heaters, wear clothes and spend more money. Unfortunately, my cyberspace links overseas were pathetic and expensive. There is a LOT of improvement required. When QUALCOMM gets Flarion's OFDM humming in cyberspace, things will be happier and more people can move to loin cloths and nice climates. Mqurice