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slayda said:
> So don't be too pessimistic, bowerbird.
i'm not being "pessimistic", i'm being _realistic_.
> Be patient & it will come.
well, first of all, i've been "patient" for over 25 years now.
after the first 15, it gets to be quite easy, to be honest...
however...
e-books are already here... they don't need no stinking
hand-held machinery to make them "real" to me, no sir.
millions of people now trot over to wikipedia every day,
people who probably haven't looked in a p-encyclopedia
more than once or twice in the past year. and they aren't
just _reading_ this e-encyclopedia, they are _writing_ it!
and even 10 years ago, who would have predicted that
more-or-less ordinary people would be writing up their
more-or-less ordinary thoughts of interest to them and
having other people read these "blogs", and this would be
one of the most widely-talked-about aspects of the web?
if you do a word-count on an active blog, you'll see that
over the course of a year or two, they've written a book!
nor is this the only form of creativity that is flourishing,
what with myspace and youtube attracting millions of
people, then being sold for $800 million to 1.6 billion...
there's a lot of action out there happening...
so i'd advise anyone who is being "patient" and "waiting"
to schedule themselves a wake-up call, and start _moving_,
or you're gonna miss the jet-plane flying out of this dump...
-bowerbird
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