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To: elmatador who wrote (82615)	4/6/2007 6:32:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206326

We visited Pittsburgh in 1976 and it was a sorry place. It had obviously had its day and I'm not surprised to see its population continue to decline to small city status. It was real "rust belt" stuff. If you go to San Diego, to Mira Mesa, you will see an amazing sight. Absolute glory days. Cisco City in San Jose several years ago was similarly impressive to me. JDS Uniphase was a monster of a thing in physical terms. Pittsburgh was at the heart of the industrial revolution at its peak, at a time when steel and sulphuric acid were major measures of economic success. Now, one measures pixels, functional photons per megahertz, mips and the like. The world of steel and oil seems quite anachronistic now, though I lived in it, literally, and it seemed such a big deal at the time. It was, and not just for me. Even while oil and steel production continue to increase, due to global demand, their demise is nigh. While Pittsburgh was peaking in the USA's post-industrial age, the IBM-powered electromagnetic and silicon revolution was underway, soon joined by Intel and the vast array of industry and millions of people leading to cyberspace which is now levitating from physical wiring/cables and fibre into a wireless aethosphere, including total coverage from space. Globalstar has the world surrounded. But even before the CDMA/OFDM aethosphere enters public consciousness, CDNA is in zygotic form. CDNA = cyberdeoxyribonucleic acid aka genetic engineering, eugenics, boot-strapping. The genetic revolution will make all the rest trivial because CDNA combined with CDMA will totally change the world of consciousness from barbaric chimpoids living pretty much like chimps with clothes on to a supernatural realm powered by the four forces of the apocalypse. It won't actually be supernatural, but it will appear that way to bewildered regular humans who are already feeling like lost souls baffled by magic, which is how most things appear to them these days. A car is now unintelligible to nearly everyone, but just a few decades ago a handy bloke could disassemble one, fix it up and put it together again with a few spanners and screwdrivers. So build those towers. Iran needs the aethosphere. Mqurice PS: I just realized I'm posting somewhere other than I thought, in an anachronistic zone which thinks oil is a big deal. I'm happy to offer enlightenment. Peak People and the resulting Peak Oil will soon be in the history books. Give it a couple of decades. Peak People is already a done deal in Japan and some other places are within a whisker, kept up only by immigration.