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To: arun gera who wrote (78035)	8/20/2011 12:07:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217868

Arun, that was a good article. Thanks for that. But his comments were like The Road Ahead by Bill Gates in the mid 1990s. I read it, expecting to find illumination only to be very surprised at how little he seemed to understand what was happening. As we now know, Microsoft missed the bus. They still have huge sales and market capitalisation but that is increasingly legacy technology. For 2 decades, Microsoft was the biggest thing going. Now, I prefer to not have Microsoft in my devices due to a bad experience with Vista which cost me a computer and a lot of time wasted and data lost. Other aspects have been annoying too. Marc described a lunch eating path. It wasn't really a Paradigm Shift Happening other than computer companies doing the regular stuff better. The geopolitical shift is the big story which I don't think I have seen anyone else discuss. A country has historically been a community of interest based on chimpanzee alpha male territorial found wealth kleptocratic suffocatocracy of citizen serfs in tribal dominance hierarchy with defended borders and genocidal conquest of more wealth and females. While plenty of people are trying to moderate those atavistic ways, that is still how the world runs. But with Cyberspace, people who earn their livelihood from it do not own allegiance to the temporal 3D serfdom in which they are held. They want to break free. Stockholm Syndrome is the way countries run. That geopolitical paradigm shift is happening. Denizens of Cyberspace don't have to live in any particular place. They will live and have their data centres where life is good and freedom maximized. I was on an A380 a couple of days ago, for what seemed like days. Those move half a thousand people to anywhere in the world at low cost in comfort and safety at 1000 kilometres per hour. If there is fibre at the destination, the Cyberspace denizen is "home" on arrival. In a few years, an A380 without good cheap wifi will not be getting customers. It was an odd and very annoying experience to be cut off from 'the world' for so long in the midst of a market crunch. Being a citizen serf is unfit for human consumption. Tradable Citizenship is the way to go. The country that figures that out will soar ahead of the barbarian outfits which currently pretentiously think of themselves as countries. The Arab Spring is just the start. The Peckham riot in my ancestral village is another warning. They could destroy my ancestor's houses but they can't take me prisoner. VVV are weightless aethereal things more valuable than gold, which is suitable for Aztecs and other temporal bare bum barbarians. Quarter of a century ago, a group of friends from around the world met in an apartment in Antwerp. We worked for various multinational companies. Those companies were located there for tax advantages offered by Belgium, with access to the huge Euro markets and it was an english-friendly environment so people from India and Peru could and did work there. We lived the life I described, but still bound to the ground and the factories. Now our offspring, who attended Antwerp International School, are spread around the world doing the same thing in Cyberspace. Our daughter's husband has just returned to London from establishing a data centre in Dubai. Our Indian friends' two children work for Google in USA. The Peruvians' older son works on artificial intelligence in a Microsoft company for Halo in USA. The other is in Geneva [not sure what he's doing]. Others are geeks too. Our son created Zenbu.net.nz and did software and other work in Japan for Livedoor. His friend made Zenbu.co.nz 25 years ago, we old geezers were international but working mostly for companies which made stuff. Now, our descendants are mixed marriage Cyberspacoids who can and do live pretty much anywhere they like. Arun [our Indian friend's son] grew up in India [they wanted, like us, for their children to experience their ancestral way of life]. But our daughter, who married a Kiwi Chinese has a 5 month young son born in Camden, London, not far from the grave of a couple of his great great great grandparents. If he gets curious about his Winn name, that's where he should go and look. That next generation is going to have a tenuous sense of being a loyal citizen serf beholden to local yokel rioters or their political overlords. The new currency <Is the new currency the persistence and commonality of user experience (crudely expressed by the broadcast media as eyeballs)? > Not really, but that's the enabling factor, almost literally, as eyeballs [or more precisely, retinas] will be a valuable component of authentication and identification. But yes, in a way, that's the basis of the currency I propose. Being bound to Big Ben's QE2 is so last century. Helengrad's NZ$ is likewise a dodgy relic of political serfdom. Gold is suitable for Aztecs hacking hearts out of human sacrifices, great for Sir Francis Drake to rob Spanish galleons, handy for Robin Hood to demand from passing carriages, but not for the Cyberspace era. Mqurice