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At 06:46 PM 11/9/2007, PJ wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">However, this begs an
interesting question: do people in this group<br>
feel they are more or less travelled than others in their
demographic<br>
population? Does seeing 'the big picture' and thinking about
the<br>
future more than others mean we're more or less mobile or is there
no<br>
correlation and the idea is irrelevant?</blockquote><br>
I travel too much to have a centralized demographic location :-)
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I have travelled to Eastern and Western Europe, Central America, South
America, various islands, Asia, etc., and each time it is a culture
shock, but the adapting is quicker. It is never easy when bags are
lost, illness sets in, and customs is harsh. <br><br>
Physical traveling to geographic locations is just part of the big
picture. Psychological traveling to different cultures and
experiencing them provides a deeper, richer experience.
Transhumanists and other futurists see a big picture because of an
ability to skim across and synthesize domains of thought regardless of
physical and psychological real-time travel. This may become just
one way of the travelling experience as we continue being more fluid in
virtual time and "experience design" will make real and virtual
even more immersive and challenging. <br><br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha</a>
<a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"> Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, situated in the
Faculty of Technology,
<dd>School of Computing, Communications and Electronics,
<dd>University of Plymouth, UK
<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
Culture</a>
<dd><a href="http://extropy.org/">Thinking About the
</a><a href="http://extropy.org/">Future</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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