Dave Brooks makes an excellent point. The gold economy is like a sapling in a forest of oak trees. Very little light gets down to the forest floor because the big oaks shade it out.
Right now we are putting out a root system. The sapling doesn't look like much but the network is developing. When a hurricane comes along and knocks down the oak trees sunlight will reach the forest floor. Lots of new ideas and alternative systems might try to launch in the aftermath of the felling of the oak trees. But the gold economy sapling will shoot up ten feet in a year and overshade all the others because the root system will already be well developed. The gold economy needs slow growth for the first decade. Sudden success might cause sudden disaster. Slow growth is just fine. By 2006 the systems should be ready to go mainstream. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.