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To: Madharry who wrote (82637)	4/7/2007 5:20:56 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206328

Watch young people with their cyberphones. I think they rate them higher than nearly everything else. They'd rather move to a warmer climate than do without their cyberphone to pay for house heating. They'd rather have their cyberphone than a boyfriend if it was either/or. Clothes are optional in a warm climate. Cyberphones are not. Young people don't see things the same was as old geezers. But it won't be an either/or choice. People can have it all. Which isn't to say everyone on Earth will have a 2 ton SUV and a freeway. They want transport, not an SUV of early 21st century design. They want warmth, which can be achieved in better ways than making a cold place like Moscow warm. Vehicles can be designed weighing more like 100 kg than 2000 kg and they can be self-managing and mutually interacting, traveling at high speeds half a metre apart, instead of lumbering around in traffic jams at slow speeds with dopey people failing to drive them successfully. But why drive somewhere anyway? A lot of trips are only because there isn't a better way to do things. With the aethersphere, many trips will not be necessary. In hot climates, hot food won't be such an issue and you might prefer cool vegetable-based food rather than hot steaks and French Fries, or Freedom Fries, with hydrogenated fats. So your cyberphone won't need to cook your meal. If you look back 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160 years, you'll see a constantly changing way of life for more and more people. That shifting process has NOT stopped. I think it's accelerating because more and more people are freed from subsistence rural life for creative enterprises. Human evolution hasn't stopped either and is going faster than ever with 6 billion of us alive compared with only a few hundred million a couple of centuries ago. Mqurice PS: I'm glad you find my rants interesting.