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To: FWS who wrote (76851)	5/3/2008 5:41:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 197246

MediaFLO: 200 million people at $5 a month beats 1 million at $50 a month or 5 million at $20 a month. The problem seems to be the greedy service providers, as usual. You are right about cellphones and their relationship to people. For years I have been drooling as I watch young people clinging to them tighter than to their na-na [the blanket infants have snuggled against their face while they suck them thumb which they don't want out of their grasp and should not even be washed]. It took longer for old geezers, but almost universally, people clutch their na-na tighter than anything. As soon as they are on their own somewhere, such as a bus stop, in a cafe or anywhere, they get it out [if it isn't already in their hand] and start texting and stuff. It's normal to see groups of girls all texting flat out while they sit together or walk down a street. It's going to be as important to people as their optic and aural nerves. Without their cyberphones, they are deaf, dumb and blind. They are just a disconnected chunk of protoplasm floating around in the harsh cruel 3D material world; little more than a fungal spore adrift on the wind. In a few years, cyberphones will be built into our bodies with nerve transducers on our voice box and facial muscle nerves for output and maybe in our finger muscle nerves too to detect intended keystrokes [no keyboard present], There would be no need to actually speak, just mouth the intended sounds and have Earcells [TM] for hearing [little hearing aids or cochlear implants] and retina scans for viewing in 3D. Our eyes, ears and voices are built in already, so to increase their range using mobile cyberspace built in too is a no-brainer, to coin a phrase. Stereoscopic web cams and 3D retina scans will mean there's no need to go traveling to see things for real. We only see images on our retinas anyway. Having our brains moved around is pointless. It's easier to just move our eyes and stretch the optic nerves via optical fibre to anywhere on Earth, or beyond. Of course there's a lot more to real life wet chemistry experiences than sight and sound, so some travel would be desirable. Mqurice