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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>Stefano Vaj<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 25, 2013 10:14 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of ALL POWER by 2030<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 21 January 2013 05:01, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span> I talk to<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>teenagers whenever I get a chance, and I have noted a remarkable<br>characteristic of the Y generation: as a group they don't seem to give a<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>damn about cars<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Interesting. I have almost entirely lost myself the lust for super cars<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ja me too Stefano. Geezer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>{8^D<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> or even super PCs for that matter<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Pal you and I are old enough to remember when PC’s weren’t super and weren’t powerful. The contrast between our misspent youth and now is stunning. Ain’t life grand? The young people present don’t know our suffering, the days of pre-gigahertz processors for instance. They don’t know how we struggled with finding suitable partners for copulation. They just get online, type in their particular kinks and preferences, and BOOM, list of available local comely lasses, ready to… um… chat online about… the kinds of things we used to… um… well, dream about.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>As to the copulation drive, much here has to do with status symbols and peer admiration<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hmmm, for you perhaps. I was always a geek, so status symbols were useless and wasted on me, and peer admiration was out of the question. Life is so much better for nerds today. They have Gates, Wozniak and Jobs to thank for making geek chic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> All this - in the West - has less and to do with hard, powerful, real-world tech, in favour of simulacrum.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>-- Stefano Vaj <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'>Final thought on that. There are in this life some things that really are better than sex. I wouldn’t trade my computer for it for instance. Back in November when I was temporarily without internet, I really suffered. It was only five days, but it was harder than being without sex for five weeks. I really missed it, and even then, the computer itself was still perfectly functional. So I wrote a lot of software and such, but it just wasn’t the same without a connection to the real world. Stefano, I like that description of yours, that hard, powerful real-world tech. Nice adjectives! It just sounds sexy.<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></div></div></body></html>