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To: LindyBill who wrote (214318)	8/3/2007 8:17:21 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793927

"We are living in exponential times" We have been for 6-10 thousand years. Just that (depending on the scale you use) the first part of an exponential curve looks like a low slope straight line.

To: LindyBill who wrote (214318)	8/3/2007 12:00:30 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 793927

Thanks so much for posting this!!!

To: LindyBill who wrote (214318)	8/3/2007 12:08:05 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 793927

Great presentation, Lindy! Am sending it to my sons. And you are so right about this. The computer whiz son is 26 and on his fourth job (which I now feel much better about after seeing that), each one moving deeper into unexplored concepts and technology. He has been talking about exponential growth since his college days when he read Kurzweil. One of his roommates has his master's in Future Studies, and the ideas and concepts they work with are just mindblowing. And sometimes frightening! They now are forming their own company, funded by the same venture capitalists who funded My Space. I don't understand any of what they are doing anymore. CW works with and talks to people all over the world. "Office" is a thing of the past in many ways. Our whole approach to the world must change. I am not sure that very many older people really grasp what is happening every day. What concerns me is that the power is shifting so rapidly to the young. I still believe in the need for the perspective and experience and guidance of age, and the young are very rash and act so fast and sometimes thoughtlessly, driven by the thrill of that next step. Where will balance come from?