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To: Crabbe who wrote (4014)	2/5/2006 2:25:26 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Respond to of 218349

IMHO, what you are forecasting may be correct but the consequences are no problem at all. All kinds of service jobs are springing up to replace manufacturing. We have tour guides,personal "trainers", banquet arrangers, gourmet cooks, consultants about how to manage your company, your individual finances, consultants about which product is better than which, health consultants about diet, exercise, dating bureaus etc. We will always have nature to struggle with, i.e. floods,droughts, earthquakes,typhoons,hurricanes, etc. I'm sure that too few people are engaged in studying and coping with these. Forests need many more people to handle. Why people even make money by making noise! I understand lots of folks pay good money to hear Rock, beebop, whatever you call it it's noise. As for all of those great leaps in medicine, most of them are essentially grant applications published in the media. They are now possible "in principle" if you, kind government, only keep the research cash flowing. Cures are tough. The great victories of poisoning infectious disease bacteria have been achieved. It's a lot more difficult to overcome virus diseases and degenerative diseases. Kurzweil is a fine thinker but he does get carried away. He once wrote a book, "The 10% Solution" in which he promised almost eternal life if we just limit fats to 10% of the diet. It's not that simple. What's true is that when he personally lost weight, exercised and ate the usual healthy diet of vegetables and fruits +non-fatty proteins, his health dramatically improved. He invented the first device which the blind could use to "read". The blind person puts the paper into a scanning machine and then a voice synthesizer translates the printed words into spoken sounds. It's all very obvious now, in 2006, but 15-20 years or so it was not obvious.

To: Crabbe who wrote (4014)	2/5/2006 2:27:34 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218349

IMHO, what you are forecasting may be correct but the consequences are no problem at all. All kinds of service jobs are springing up to replace manufacturing. We have tour guides,personal "trainers", banquet arrangers, gourmet cooks, consultants about how to manage your company, your individual finances, consultants about which product is better than which, health consultants about diet, exercise, dating bureaus etc. We will always have nature to struggle with, i.e. floods,droughts, earthquakes,typhoons,hurricanes, etc. I'm sure that too few people are engaged in studying and coping with these. Forests need many more people to handle. Why people even make money by making noise! I understand lots of folks pay good money to hear Rock, beebop, whatever you call it it's noise. As for all of those great leaps in medicine, most of them are essentially grant applications published in the media. They are now possible "in principle" if you, kind government, only keep the research cash flowing. Cures are tough. The great victories of poisoning infectious disease bacteria have been achieved. It's a lot more difficult to overcome virus diseases and degenerative diseases. Kurzweil is a fine thinker but he does get carried away. He once wrote a book, "The 10% Solution" in which he promised almost eternal life if we just limit fats to 10% of the diet. It's not that simple. What's true is that when he personally lost weight, exercised and ate the usual healthy diet of vegetables and fruits +non-fatty proteins, his health dramatically improved. He invented the first device which the blind could use to "read". The blind person puts the paper into a scanning machine and then a voice synthesizer translates the printed words into spoken sounds. It's all very obvious now, in 2006, but 15-20 years or so ago it was not obvious.