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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (76594)	7/20/2011 5:31:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219082

BS, the fact is the delivered price of the organic produce is lower, so the distributed system already achieves what I've described, with not much economy of scale to back it. With scaling up, the advantages would increase because the courier would go door to door instead of to just one house per street. The packaging and other aspects would gain economies of scale. So would crop growing. "Organic" is not inherently more expensive. For example buying sprays adds to cost. So if genetically engineered crops are insect resistant, that's cheaper than spraying them. In a city like Toronto, there are dirty great huge sewerage systems. In distributed living, people can just drop their poop, scraps and old newspapers in the ground [not that they'd have newspapers with Cyberspace at hand]. Just as animals need more and more leg as they get bigger [due to physics], cities need more and more support just to keep them going, until there is a maximum size they reach before they become top heavy and crumble. Antelopes have thin little legs and can move really fast. Elephants have to have huge legs and so can't move quickly [albeit faster than most people still]. There is no shortage of land. It's easier to move a tree ripened nectarine from a tree growing outside the kitchen window than it is to move it to Toronto 1000 miles away, pay for a supermarket, then have people walk to or drive to a supermarket, only to sit in a traffic jam for half an hour. Reaching out the window and picking a nectarine while cerfing Cyberspace is the way to go. Then pull a trout out of the creek. Take a look around the Sahara desert if you want to find a lot of spare land. Or just drive out to the lakes to the north east of Toronto. Everywhere you look, there is land with hardly anybody on it. Even in India, where there is 1 billion people, out in the countryside, people are few and far between. NZ could take another 10 million people easily and still be nearly empty. 10 million x $2 million = $20 trillion. That's real money = lots of motorways, airports, and fibre networks could be built. A380s could shuttle hordes of people north to avoid NZ winter. Mqurice