ction from the larger issue
and the hard questions
thoughts?
tom abeles
me
it to be a static background. We have concerned outselves with a short
term, static window and, perhaps it is time to change our perspectives
thoughts?
tom abeles
Hi Jim
I am all eyes and ears-lay your model on the table
tom
Jim Dator wrote:
>
> Well, while I was scribbling off line, Arthur, as usual, has said it well.
> It is an issue of "effective demand": Plenty of goods (too many for Earth
> to sustain, probably)...
> What to do?
>
> .If
Hmm, let's see. What happens when Indira Ghandi Open University starts
offering fully accredited futures courses to students at the University
of Hawaii at one tenth the price. Time to liquify some of those
retirement annuities?
thoughts?
tom abeles
uot; but a winner take all lottery.
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i am not sure that I understand what is happening in your model. Can you
give me a scenario and take that the next step forward
thank you
tom abeles
Hi art
thanks for the response- it raises other questions but also points out
that we need to rise beyond the Rifkin Rhetoric quickly or be caught
skirmishing on the fringe issues.
Cordell, Arthur: DPP wrote:
>
> My view is a function of things that I believe-- note I can't 'prove
> them' j
services- where do they get the cash? It
is interesting that corporations are now setting up large barter
networks and using the web for bidding on goods and services. One
wonders when the banks will see another service, brokering those who are
indentured via their none dischargeable caredit card debt.
thoughts?
tom abeles
Edward Weick wrote, in a small part:
>
> >Welcome to the world of the arts.Out of 5,650 graduates a year in vocal
> performing >arts programs there are about 300 full time jobs..
>
> It would seem that there has been a change of emphasis from specialization
> to flexibility; from the ap
hat is what the Greens have not addressed- Gucchi's yes, Birkenstocks
No
Other than an apocolypse or a serendpitous epiphany strking the world,
what is the alternative?
thoughts?
tom abeles
tive paths. But to do that one
has to see the benefit beyond survival in some world which seems one
step above that of a Penatante.
Philosophy and Visons are what make us human. If we stop hoping and
aspiring, then capitulation maybe the path.
thoughts?
tom abeles
quated as saying:
Fear of History... is not only fear of the future but also fear of the
past. he who fears what is to come usually also fears facing what has
already been. and he who fears facing his own past must mecessarily
fear what lies before him.
and therein lies the problem.
thoughts
ete change from our perspective here
in the 20th century actually involved a signficant time period. The
Azasazi which Tainter describes, took longer to "die" than the US has
been in existance.
thoughts?
tom abeles
pressurizing it with
water. The village was so happy to have running water that they did not
want the water disconnected.
John has just touched the tip of his iceberg-
tom abeles
Ed Weick wrote, in part:
>
> As you may have guessed, I am something of an elitist, and may even be
> neo-con or neo-lib, though I have not had my blood tested recently to find
> out. I do not believe in mass movements, and have a low opinion of
> democracy as currently practiced. .. Mobilizing
ion on the pox. it will stop the itching but do nothing for the
underlying "corruption".
cheers
tom abeles
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