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To: Mike Perras who wrote (2001)	1/18/1999 10:23:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3282

You might think so. but think again. make yourself naked in a forest. What is the first thing you need? Well it isn't a computer. You need shelter. Then fire. You could use tools and water. Then food. Ergo more tools. All flows from the needs of man. Agriculture, tools for survival. At the end of a long chain comes the tools of a larger nation. The tools of man's global survival. But we will live in mined iron, glass buildings heated by fuels mined. We will get to our places of work with things made from mined materials running on mined fuels. The ages of man were defined by the metals and materials he worked with. You will never destroy or make unimportant the chiefest engine of the economy. The home and its needs. Let us not lose sight of the fact that for our common safety and security, as we understand it we should control the materials that make the greatest part of that. Big mistake to denigrate what you depend on. The entire industrial revolution was brought forth by one need. The need to keep water out of mines. This led to the steam engine. That led to iron mining and coal mining to build railroads. The first major use of the dynamo was to light open pit mines in the US. The other great leap forward for English science and industry came from the need for cheaper clothing. The automation of the loom and subsequent "spin-offs" (puno intentio) led to the hollerith card and eventually to the system of computer data collection that governs the interface with the computer you use today. EC<:-}