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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (93508)	8/14/2012 3:25:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219715

Yes, I noticed a certain lack of logic in my argument, and tried to cover it up by emphasizing the proportionality and degree of separation which is continuing to increase. Not quite successfully but near enough for government work, I decided. The point was it's not like an on/off switch. It's more like the industrial revolution process which took a hundred years to really get a head of steam up, with the gap between the wealthy [Switzerland, Luxembourg, Singapore] and the poor [Rwanda, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe] now being enormous. The mesa north of San Diego is like a different planet from the Papua New Guinea way of life. All most people can do about Cyberspace is look at it and wonder what the heck is going on. It's not so much that the current space becomes irrelevant, it's just a whole new thing added which exists in its own right. Papua New Guinea tribesmen never went away or became irrelevant to themselves, it was just that in another realm there was an industrial revolution going on ending with A380s circling the globe. Similarly, you will still go skiing and you might even be dimly aware that there's something going on in another realm, like a PNG tribesman might ponder a contrail through the sky. Mqurice