Re: ie 'change is inevitable"

"driven largest of all by dreams of
personal profit by a very small % of the tenants."

When did personkind's greed (or any other downside characteristic) change for the worse ? - I would argue that these characteristics have remained essentially static for the past 40,000 years (at least) but that because the human population has grown so dramatically, & personkind has discovered some secrets of the universe + how to manipulate bits of it, plus add to this our self awareness and our intellectual knowledge, and this may well amplify perceptions of everything we do in today's world (when in fact the only real change has been the world's population & perceptions).

Semms to me that we today, be we Lawyers or prostitutes (very well matched), Priests or Sinners (usually both as far as Priests are concened :-), Businessmen or consumers, Congressmen or the masses, etc: etc: - that we have changed little over the era of cro-magnon man. It is only our exploitation of our environment that seems to have changed and that is directly related to population growth and indirectly related to our growing self-awareness (as some ancients say - we alone in Eden ate the big apple from the tree of knowledge).

I get the impression that you have an issue with corporate world. I don't - they are an evolutionary species, - that could be because I spend most of my life in quieter backwaters than you are subject to (but Napa must be very pleasant?). I see corporations as little more than darwinian evolution & in the longer term they may not survive but then again they may be what they are because they are survival in an overpopulated world.

Corporation vs nation state.

But what the f*** has this got to do with a piddling evolutionary advance in the use of computers, that we are calling XML & Web Services ?

Theirin lies my confusion with your directions :-)

Cheers

Doug

"driven largest of all by dreams of personal profit by a very small % of the tenants." When did personkind's greed (or any other downside characteristic) change for the worse ? - I would argue that these characteristics have remained essentially static for the past 40,000 years (at least) but that because the human population has grown so dramatically, & personkind has discovered some secrets of the universe + how to manipulate bits of it, plus add to this our self awareness and our intellectual knowledge, and this may well amplify perceptions of everything we do in today's world (when in fact the only real change has been the world's population & perceptions). Semms to me that we today, be we Lawyers or prostitutes (very well matched), Priests or Sinners (usually both as far as Priests are concened :-), Businessmen or consumers, Congressmen or the masses, etc: etc: - that we have changed little over the era of cro-mangnon man. It is only our exploitation of our environment that seems to have changed and that is directly related to population growth and indirectly related to our growing self-awareness (as some ancients say - we alone in Eden ate the big apple from the tree of knowledge). I get the impression that you have an issue with corporate world. I don't - they are an evolutionary species, - that could be because I spend most of my life in quieter backwaters than you are subject to (but Napa must be very pleasant?). I see corporations as little more than darwinian evolution & in the longer term they may not survive but then again they may be what they are because they are survival in an overpopulated world. Corporation vs nation state. But what the f*** has this got to do with a piddling evolutionary advance in the use of computers, that we are calling XML & Web Services ? Theirin lies my confusion with your directions :-) Cheers Doug

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