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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (8845)	9/2/2006 5:09:10 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217695

TJ, you are showing some understanding of financial relativity theory, <because financial gravity is getting weaker :0) >, though it's more accurate to say that the gravitational financial field has been spread out through the accelerating inflationary process, while things like gold and other financially interactive fields like NEM QCOM OIL MSFT have not. So their financial leverage has apparently increased, making jumping higher and easier as viewed by an observer fixed in the USD [and other fiat currency] financial gravity fields, but propelled by such things. For gold and other non-producing assets, that is only an apparent advantage, which one should not mistake as progress. The easier jumping isn't actually a return on investment, such as with a productive energy and matter-generating event, such as is the invention of QUALCOMM's magical phragmented photon cyberspace, and even boring things like oil production, or even a gold mine if Aztec-mania continues apace. Gold mines depend on mania. Oil wells depend on continued SUV-driving industrial revolution obsession [fading quickly]. Phragmented photon cyberspace depends on consciousness, and more importantly, creation of more of it, defining the very reality on which it depends itself in a Goedelian self-reverential virtuous spiral of development, akin to the creation of DNA, but far more important as the spiral leads directly to extra-somatic consciousness, which is the next stage of being after the wet-chemistry era, which has lasted a billion years on Earth, with ever-spiraling DNA improvements. Developments continue apace. For example, one tiny development, this is typed back in Kiwiland on my very own zenbu.net.nz node, while listening to some nice French cafe singing [acquired in Uzes from some itinerant singers] on my notebook computer, using a wifi link to the mainframe which is now plugged into a Cisco Linksys WRT54GL wifi thingy, which only costs S$88 [about NZ$88] in a retail store in Singapore, but about NZ$150 here. I dare say we could order 10,000 from China at a better price. I almost get reverse sticker shock from the price. It seems yesterday [but actually about 4 years] that I paid NZ$200 for just a PCMCIA wifi card to test the RoamAD wifi network. Now, you can't buy a notebook computer without wifi, so the cost is concealed in the price of the computer, which is only about NZ$1000. I can buy a whole node, retail for -od's sake, for less than half the cost of a PCMCIA card not long ago. And the node is a clever, powerful, computer in its own right, which can do all sorts of tricks. I have two little gadgets which do what big boxes costing NZ$10,000 did about 4 years ago [not very well]. Wifi can provide close-in action, and Dora and HSDPA can handle the wide area network action. The dramatically reducing prices and increasing power will enable hordes of people to jump easily into mobile cyberspace and pay royalties to QCOM and buy their ASICs, and buy megabytes from ZenBu when in wifi range. People jumping in cyberspace will jump weightlessly as high as they like. If weighed down by gold and without ZenBu and Dora/HSDPA or OFDM, they'll be able to jump, but only relatively well compared with the Earthbound USD realm. Then, with the invention of Qi, not just the USD and other fiat currencies, but also the poor old Aztecs will be atavistic losers from a bygone era, clutching their little totems, hoping for a return to the glory of gold and Old Glory. Mqurice