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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (69612)	12/14/2010 12:37:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218823

Watch people with their phones. It's their central cultural icon. Rightly so. They can see It coming. youtube.com Some people already have them built right into their bodies via cochlear implants. The process is just beginning. <folks may be eating less... exercising less.. getting obese in droves... > Eating less is a good thing. It means people don't have to do so much work to survive. They push a few buttons and gasoline from a well thousands of kilometres away gushes into their car. Cars now require thimble fulls of fuel, not gallons. Airliners fly people around the world using minimal kerosene and can fly half a thousand at a time in comfort. The A380 is phenomenal. It comes over us daily and it's amazing. I bought a return ticket to London on an A380 recently. It cost NZ$2400. Very ordinary pay in NZ is NZ$24 an hour so that's only 2.5 weeks work. Nearly 40 years ago, it cost us NZ$636 each to go one way to England from New Zealand, and that was the absolutely cheapest way we could travel other than getting into unusual traveling methods such as working passage or something. So 2 way would be NZ$1370. In 1974, pay rates were something like NZ$50 per week for the same job which is now NZ$20 per hour. So we paid 30 weeks work for what people now pay 2 weeks work. And it took us 6 weeks just to get there, but now it's 24 hours. Now, enroute people can cerf in Cyberspace [should be able to soon]. Then, people could post a letter at the next port and expect a reply perhaps a few weeks later if they sent an aerogramme. Now they click on Skype and chat via video. We had smallpox vaccinations. There is no such thing now [other than in a few laboratories]. What's with the whining? Life's a doddle. 40 years ago, people in China were dying in droves. Now they work at Foxconn and buy Big Macs and Androids instead of hoping for a bit of rice and a carrot. Personally, I prefer the rice, carrot, peas, onion, etc yum. Hideous hutongs have been replaced by modern high rise apartments. Mqurice