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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Amon Zero<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] seamless uploading<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 14 July 2011 17:39, Amon Zero <<a href="mailto:amon@doctrinezero.com">amon@doctrinezero.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 14 July 2011 12:31, Eugen Leitl <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><br>We're getting pretty close to dropping the ball entirely. Few seem to<br>be aware or care.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>Maybe you're watching the wrong trajectory? <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>By which I'm not trying to be snide in any way, just saying that conceptions of "the future" have a tendency to shift over time. Just because the future we were expecting might not ever arrive, it doesn't mean that dramatic developments aren't in the post, you know?<span style='color:#1F497D'> -</span>A<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja. Consider the impact of the development of the internet, and the www in the early 90s, which is still rocking our world. Where would we be without having the world at our fingertips? That stunning development changed everything, and is still having an enormous impact. For those of us who are heavy internet users, that alone tacks on about 20 IQ points. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Never was this so apparent as when I was involved in a lawsuit recently with four plaintiffs, none of which are internet users apparently. They needed their lawyers to do *<b>eeeeverything</b>* for them at 300 bucks an hour, and they did it all wrong anyway. We saw contradictory testimony, easily falsified sworn affidavits, self-contradictions eeeverywhere, irrelevant testimony which went on for days, all of which would have been avoided had they sat down with a good internet connection and learned a little about Oregon law.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My ability to just look up a few laws and outline a case made it simple for my lawyer, and we won everything. We didn’t get fully paid for legal expenses and probably never will, but at least we didn’t lose our property. Without the internet, we probably would have lost it all. Those without an information pipe really are living in a different world than you and I inhabit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There are plenty of developments I can see coming. We have a crying need to replace the education system as we have known it, where one adult stands up in front of about 30 kids and talks. That needs to be replaced by computer based learning. I have watched my own son do his educational software, which isn’t great but is improving all the time. I fear school will be mostly a waste of time for him. I look at what I have learned just since I became a heavy internet user in the past 15 years and how effective an education tool it is. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our world is slow to change, but it does eventually change. I can envision a world in which plenty of us live in homes which are mostly dark when it is dark outside, mostly cold when it is cold outside, but all with low-power high bandwidth internet connections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>