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To: Crabbe who wrote (434)	11/26/1997 8:52:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 686

No No Rodney, The 90's will always be remembered as the decade of the Internet. The effects of change may be more acuitly felt in the next decade, but mankind will always remember the year 1992, when a bunch of brilliant college students were allowed free access to a Super Computer in the basement of the University of Illinois. There they challeged eachother to think differently, think globally, and from their work created the Browser. Forever changing the world as we know it. Books will be written, movies will be played, it will be a time remembered similar in scope to the Manhattan Project for it's effect on mankind. Except this time, instead of separating peoples and countries. Mankind took one huge step to bring the world closer together. All you have to do is look around the threads of SI to see the evidence. People as far away as Poland and Korea, speaking to eachother about the global economy, about how to make money in stocks, and so much more. How many lurkers do you suppose are out there just watching the thoughts of participants on SI. Learning things it would normally take decades to learn. I know in the last 2 years on SI, I have learned more about how the markets work than all the books I've tried to digest at the library combined. What other instrument could have accomplished as much? And it's ALL happening, right now. Michael