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To: elmatador who wrote (19625)	6/16/2007 5:24:19 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217548

ElM, your "real world" will soon be history. "Real" seems very real and important at the time, but it's ephemeral and you'd feel like Rip Van Winkle if you traveled ahead 10 years. "Attachment" is very human and normal. <we're talking about the real world here. > We are territorial property-seeking creatures adapted to social contexts. That gives our sense of self an immediacy not warranted by the broader span of our lives. It's why we over-value the present and undervalue the future, apart from our lack of ability in predicting the future, let alone creating it [though TJ, soothsayer extraordinaire can tell us of inevitability which he KNOWS to be true]. I'm building the new reality which the reality-based unknown unknowns crowd will come to accept as the one true reality. You are helping by climbing those poles. Donald Rumsfeld might have been less than perfect, who.com but he gave us some great lines [I think it was him], with the known knowns, through to unknown unknowns and the "reality-based community". Energy [coal and oil for the most part] is a 20th century obsession derived from the industrial revolution and the steam engine. There's more to life than enthalpy, belts, pulleys, cogs, shafts, pistons and wheels. Mq's mobile cyberspace is much more real than your oily world of moving metal, even if it's moved by ethanol. Right now you are using it! See your monkey fingers hovering over the keyboard. Clumsy appendages of wet chemistry scrabbling at the existence beyond the keys, ASICs, screen and I.P. addresses. But they can't get in. You know that beyond your screen is the real reality, ethereal though it might be. An unlimited cyberspace, lurking in the wild blue yonder. When you are burning fuels, be they methane, gasoline, diesel or heavy stuff you are re-enacting the industrial revolution and clinging to the past. Driving and flying once upon a time gave a sense of progress, heading into the future. Now they just give a sense of senseless congestion on a slow, circular, road to nowhere. Youngsters are surging into cyberspace and wouldn't know a carburetor if they had it served up on their dinner plate. I'm an ex oil-bloke, so it's not as though I'm anti-oil. I got into cyberspace because I decided 26 years ago that that was the future. During my oil time I was heading off into the cyberspace realm, pushing BP along as best I could into environmental management and cyberspace as an enabling tool for BP and BP's customers to arrive at the future. My argument way back then was that if something didn't have to be taken in a wheel barrow, then it should be in computers. I invented the word "infotech" [though it's rather obvious so perhaps there were earlier usages] in a memo to the drones in Head Office Wellington, with the wheel-barrow analogy. Mqurice