themic86

Yeah - the point isn't so much the ease of farming, rather it's necessity in order to increase the 'people / acre ' and the inherent interdependence of people as a result. we've been moving towards socialism since birth.

I agree. Also, most browsers now have a search bar in house. in my experience, many people use the search features more often than the address features, even if they are going directly to the main page of a web site.

It's just easier to remember the name of a site than it's literal/direct address. Even if they are one and the same 90% of the time, it turns out to be faster using google.

The fact that it might be a good thing is personal (aside from the added desire, which could very well be the final straw to motivate whomever to do whatever). I was a bit nervous about quitting my job - that decision has been made for me.

judging by the amount of rejectsion - we'd have t make some SERIOUS bank in order to quit our day jobs.

Does anyone else feel as if the rejection letter did nothing but fuel the fire to get moving on their Idea? This might very well be a good thing.

You make it sound like man's progression towards interdependence doesn't warrant some degree of socialized changed in areas that are clearly underperforming in the reign of "private enterprise". No one said change was going to be easy... or cheap. We brought this upon ourselves when we realized farming and gathering was easier than hunting and gathering.

good point. I was doing a simple "how many 'dollars' are in 'circulation' / population". of course, most money isn't money, it is, like you said, digitized debt.

Place billions of orders to small breweries around the world and have them shipped a select few small towns.

How much would everyone have if that happened?

My guess is somewhere around $50k.

Oh, you didn't hear? He with the largest digit wins.

I agree, but my argument is based on semantics. I believe when one creates "Artificial" intelligence, it isn't really artificial. I don't think intelligence cares what medium caries out the function of being intelligent.

As for art - computers are just as able to create art as humans, but only because so many people define art from the observer's perspective. If a person is inspired by an image, it shouldn't matter that it was nothing more than some pixel shifting algorithm reshaping a random google image selection.