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Excellent point. Sooner than later we will have to pay for the air we breathe, just wait till it becomes a scarce resource because of pollution. We may also have to pay for the right to "use" our own DNA eventually [1]. Check out also how industry and goverment are interested in protecting our privacy [2] and what is in store for those who will oppose it all [3]. As usual, it was all predicted by science-fiction writers such as Philip Dick :-) http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=277097 http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51275,00.html http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/073/nation/MIT_given_50m_to_equip_troops+. shtml Alain. (not gloomy, just lucid) --- Alain Rogister CTO http://www.ubiquity.be ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> To: <arg@u...>; <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 7:43 PM Subject: RE: Capitalism and XML > The scarce commodity that will become a political > issue of some concern is drinking water. Some concerns > are buying up water rights as fast as they can. > > len > > From: arg@u... [mailto:arg@u...] > > BTW, food is a scarce resource > nowadays only because we collectively accept that it be so. We could feed > everyone if we decided to. >
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