<DIV>Dear Giulio,</DIV>
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<DIV> Interesting thought, but you have to be careful with smoking so much. I still remember meeting you in Madrid last year and seeing you smoke like an Italian plus a Spaniard combined:-)</DIV>
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<DIV> Remember that we are not immortals yet... and that cancer is a killer disease:-(</DIV>
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<DIV> Transhumanistically yours,</DIV>
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<DIV> La vie est belle!</DIV>
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<DIV> Yosé<BR><BR><B><I>Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <gpmap@runbox.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Ten years ago I used to travel a lot and I spent many hours on aircraft, smoking cigarettes and reading books. Smoking and reading were such a central part of my air travel experience that I could not conceive being on a plane and not doing these two things all the time.<BR>A few days ago I was on the plane and I realised that things have changed fundamentally in ten years: I was reading an e-book on my tablet PC, and happily inhaling nicotine from a Nicorette Inhaler. I was doing the same two things that I used to do ten years ago, in a fundamentally different way. We are really in the twenty-first century.<BR>The e-book was a very good one: "Darwin's Children", the sequel to Greg Bear's "Darwin Radio", you can buy both at Fictionwise. I am an early adopter of e-books because I prefer to buy books that I can download immediately. Other fundamental advantages are that e-books can be
much cheaper, that I can carry a whole library with me, and that the publisher has e-books immediately available in stock. Well as a matter of fact I have to force myself reading e-books as it is not yet the same as reading paper books, but I am sure technology will advance soon. At that point, e-books will offer a much better quality of life.<BR>We smokers do not like forcing our smoke on others, but many of us literally cannot survive without smoking. The Nicorette Inhaler can be used as a Nicotine Replacement Therapy to quit smoking gradually (best wishes to all smokers who want to try), or as a means for smokers to survive in today's world where you cannot smoke anywhere, or as a means for smokers to live without forcing their smoke on others: a much better quality of life for all.<BR>These two examples are meant to illustrate how, big visions aside, "small" technology is silently improving our quality of
life.<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>wta-talk mailing list<BR>wta-talk@transhumanism.org<BR>http://www.transhumanism.org/mailman/listinfo/wta-talk</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><P>La vie est belle!<BR><BR>Yosé (<A href="http://www.cordeiro.org">www.cordeiro.org</A>) <IMG src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys/1.gif"></P>
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