[extropy-chat] a futurist prediction

[Brett Paatsch]

Emlyn wrote:

> FWIW, I haven't been overly bugged by all this twentycen partisan
> political crapola, because I'm using gmail. It's inherently threaded,
> so the tech threads have a 2 or 3 next to them (number of posts) while
> the political ones have numbers that are 50+ sometimes, but the
> threading keeps it contained; I see them as equal weighted, rather
> than being swamped by the political stuff.

When you say its "inherently threaded" I don't follow. How are
incoming posts from say the Exi-chat list "inherently threaded" so that
you can read just the tech stuff if you want and avoid the political
stuff if you don't?

As you know Emlyn, I have an IT degree, but I *still* forget or don't
keep track of all the features of all the bits of software. Most of what
I hear I have to discount as salesy blah blah from people who haven't
got much of a clue themselves. At least until the time I get irked enough
by some limitation to formulate a plan to learn and listen to some of
them asking what I want to know, not what they want to tell me. There
isn't time to check everything. But if you, who likes this stuff are getting
value from it, its probably pretty damn good (at least for what your
doing with it ;-).

> And I get practically no junk mail, and it's extremely reliable, and
> the ads are ignorable or actually relevant (the same as with a google
> search, small print on the right side of the screen), and the
> interface is excellent, and the capacity now grows continuously
> (pushing 2.5gb last time I looked), and it's free. If anyone wants an
> invite, just ask :-)

Thats an invite to gmail, again, or an invite to something else? I took
your gmail invite and I think I lost my gmail account, or perhaps didn't,
because I wasn't ready, it wasn't important enough to me, to take the
time to make the change.

I reckon a lot of Exi-chat posters are like me. Smart but lazy. Looking
for the easy way. Budgetting time, in a way, like most people budget
money, because time, is also precious, and the serious thinking we like
to do, but we don't like to waste it on trivial administrative stuff.

Funny thing is one persons trivial administrative stuff is anothers living
and passion.

Brett Paatsch