<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 18/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><div>Do you want to engage the actual situation? You asked me my opinion on relative difficulty and I included the actual situation today. Where exactly am I to find a more liberal and technophilic environment with good levels of personal and economic freedom today? I would very much like to know. While over the long run you are correct it is not clear the US will lose its lead in many areas any time soon. In the long run the AIs, being less contentious, will already be here.
</div><span class="sg"></span></div></blockquote></div><br>The US will change when it starts to become obvious that it will be overtaken if it doesn't.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou