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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (12135)	5/14/2011 1:47:30 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24246

Oh, they are "entitled" to it; they just won't get it.

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (12135)	5/21/2011 3:08:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 24246

I hope they'll buy my 3G and 4G and wifi mobile cyberspace, so they can order organic vegetables on-line for delivery to their door by courier. <try to convince the bottom 80% of the world's population that they aren't entitled to get a bit closer to the standard of living enjoyed by the top 20%. > They can have a HIGHER standard of living than those who have got themselves jammed up in "economies of scale" huge metropolitian vertical cities. The idea that happiness comes from pouring 100 litres of petrol into a dirty great SUV and roaring around a freeway is false for most regular humans. Globalstar is launching and with O3B there will be plenty of places with easy access to the interwebs. Couriers deliver lots of stuff quickly, cheaply and reliably. Giant malls and SUVs are so last century. A380s can whisk people to the other side of the planet in less than 24 hours, using drams of kerosene to do it. Nearly 40 years ago, it took a dirty great ship 6 weeks and much money and fuel to deliver me to the shore, not to downtown. Peak People and Peak Oil in 2037 will coincide with dramatic technological improvements meaning billions of people living in 2050 will have amazing lifestyles compared with the sorry mess surrounding us today. Crops will be booming with CO2 enrichment, needing less irrigation. Life will be a doddle. DNA will be improving. Right now, somebody I know is selecting embryos without their stomach cancer gene [they found it quite annoying to have their stomach surgically removed in their 20s and wish not to inflict that gene on their children]. Mqurice