To: TobagoJack who wrote (1642 ) 10/26/2005 4:12:52 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 218046 <so far we have simply discovered and invented more effective ways of putting ourselves out of business, biologically and monetarily speaking > No. Some people claim they can predict the future, such as you. They claim inevitability of this that and the other. While this that and the other might come to pass, they have not. So, in fact, we have got things humming along beautifully and more beautifully than ever. There is greater wealth than ever. Spectacularly phenomenal wealth, with the four forces of the apocalypse tamed and put to our service. Which isn't to say they might not kick over the traces, but for now, things are going swimmingly. Indians and Chinese are buying CDMA-powered phragmented photon cyberphones for goodness sakes! When our grandfathers were bustling around in the industrial revolution era, nearly everyone around the world was scratching a living in rural agricultural subsistence ways of life. With the invention of the Quid, which will flow from person to person and machine to machine in CDMA/OFDM-powered cyberspace, linked by a spider web of fibre and network nodes, the world will be turbo-charged. Exchange costs, dilution/inflation, forgery, fraud, theft, delays, collapses and the other imposts of state-controlled fiat currencies will fade from the scene. I too can predict the future and the Quid is inevitable. As is you paying me royalties for a cyberphone. You are also likely if not certain to buy my ASICs, use my BREW, gpsOne, Eudora2Go, Iridigm screen, etc. We are far from biologically out of business, with 6 billion of us surging. faculty.plattsburgh.edu Look at that growth curve. Spectacular. Neither are we out of business monetarily speaking. There is more money around than has existed in all of human history. And Big Ben will ensure plenty more of it is given life, but hopefully not too much. Financial relativity theory has its limits and if we go too fast, we will implode into a Black Scholes event horizon collapse. Mqurice PS: BTW, I suggest you bail out of your Google shorts [if you have them]. There is a vast amount of advertising to be done. 5 times as much spending as has been done in normal media. And GOOG is well-placed to provide a LOT of it. A wall of money is coming and you will be tsunamied.