I have found the book *The Big Switch* fascinating.
http://www.nicholasgcarr.com/bigswitch/ and recommend it. A bit off-topic
for this list, but Henry's recent posting re
http://www.shapeways.comrelates precisely to one of the central themes
of the book - that there is
a growing "gift" economy (to which I personally, by the way, have been a
big supplier, developing Jmol this way) - that involves a very few people
making huge (and I mean HUGE) fortunes from people like us doing the labor
for them. There's a real question as to what this means for the global
economy, what it means for the middle class, and what it means for
developing nations.
Just putting that out there.
Bob
--
Robert M. Hanson
Larson-Anderson Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr
If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.
-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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