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"Vince" appears to be back at it: -------------------------------------- I see a few on this group list have bravely speculated about interesting events that may transpire between they years of 2010 and 2013. I'd have to say that 2013 was not one of my better years. In hindsight I should never have reported on Mr. Suggins and that damned sledge hammer of his. The few unedited history books that I've been able to get my hands on concerning early 21st century geopolitical events do not seem to have singled out a collapse of the American economy as having been of much historical significance. Perhaps it wasn't that big of a deal. Or perhaps the lack of interest may have been due to the larger scope of the global economic collapse being experienced by the rest of the planet. I could see how few on the planet, especially the historians, would have given a rat's ass about the economic hardships transpiring within the United States and their stockpiles of Hummers and SUVs grinding to a screeching halt. The history books seem more filled with reports of the global economy reeling from the effects of severe mega-weather patterns that increasingly began disrupting everyone's lives in unimaginable ways. "Head for the hills!" was a battle call expressed by many. In hindsight when looking back at what transpired in the early 21st century, the historians seem mostly in agreement over the fact that there simply wasn't enough time for vast sectors of the entrenched global economy to absorb the impact of what had been unleashed. In a sense, there was insufficient "central planning", a concept I find highly ironic considering what happened next. What happened next was a totally unexpected invasion of "disruptive technologies" that quickly pervaded every corner of the planet. They spread like an unstoppable pandemic - viruses consisting primarily of cheap new communication services, super efficient lighting and building materials, and pervasive cheap micro-energy production technologies. They rippled through the planet affecting the global economy like a swarm of African bees leaving nothing untouched. Devastated were most of the major utility sectors, along with countries that had unwisely based their economies on a single exportable "product." Meanwhile, as various sectors of the global economic fabric collapsed like a stack of teetering dominoes, others sprang up in their place, sometimes almost overnight, skyrocketing their way towards the stratosphere of success. After the smoke cleared what was left was a new breed of thriving decentralized economic systems that behaved more like a high-tech web of interconnected villages that quickly learned how to barter with one another for goods and services. These new emergent systems easily toppled the already weakened centralized and nationally run economies. The new global economy had transformed itself into something akin to a decentralized organism that no longer needed a centralized brain to run efficiently. It behaved more like clusters of multi-cellular coral organisms. The beauty of this new system was that it was far more robust and self-healing than any previous economic system known to man. Biology experiments that deliberately tore apart multi-cellular clusters of coral organisms noticed that these traumatized cellular organisms would eventually reorganize themselves back into self-regulating multi-cellular organisms. And so, apparently did the new emergent village economies. I would imagine that some readers on this list group are wondering if "COLD FUSION" was partially to blame (or to be praised) for the sudden economic collapse and subsequent restructuring of the global economy. All I can say on this topic is that there is very little literature on the scientific term, "COLD FUSION". From what I can tell, new sources of cheap ubiquitous energy were called by so many different names that it has been difficult for me to track down what or where most of them originated. I see lots of wind, solar, geothermal, technologies. But I also see a pervasive number of exotic electromagnetic technologies that go by names (and terminologies) that I can't even pronounce. I do notice that the word "fusion" occasionally pops up in some of the fine print concerning many exotic electromagnetic technologies, but in what manner – I haven't a clue. Certainly, I'll grant it is conceivable that the ruminants of early 21st century "COLD FUSION" research may have eventually evolved into some of these new pervasive energy sources. But to be honest, I just don't know. If I can stay put long enough in one of the more stable time zones, where I don't have to worry about the time police catching wind of my whereabouts I might be inclined to do a little historical research on this matter. But, right now keeping one foot in time and the other out seems to be the only way I know how to remain a "free lancer" in my line of business – a profession that appears to have chosen me without my consent. "Vince" Dinglelint ------------------------------------- Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
