X-Message-Number: 18363
From: "George Smith" <>
Subject: How to collect your bet when you win!
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 10:16:30 -0800

John Grigg in message #18360 wrote in part, "We made a bet that if 
nano-replicators are in homes by 2030, she will have to
treat me to dinner at a nice restaurant!  And if not, than I'm the one 
footing
the bill!"

So you win the bet, go to a restaurant to collect and discover that there 
are no charges for the food because all recipes for even the most exotic 
gourmet preparations were encoded into everyone's nanotech replicators via 
the internet.  Food in all imaginable forms has become as cheap as dirt 
(which is what you scoop into the nanoreplicator anyway).

So you figure you will collect anyway because there will be "places to go" 
which serve the free food with "atmosphere" which was part of the reason 
people went to restaurants to begin with. You will have human "servers" who 
will walk up to your table overlooking a beautiful waterfall, for example, 
take your order, go into the "kitchen" where they scoop some dirt into a 
replicator to grow your food, and then carry the plates out to your table.  
She will have to foot the bill for the "atmosphere" and human service.

But then you find out that some years ago EVERY "restaurant" using virtual 
reality technology could produce ANY environment imaginable AND these too 
became cheaper than dirt because the programs were spread across the 
internet through contests from creative artists who simply wanted to prove 
to the world that they could "one up" their competition.

AND even the need for the human "servers" was fabricated at will through the 
VR (virtual reality) programs.

So restaurants went completely out of business because anyone anywhere did 
not have to GO anywhere to have a gourmet dinner seated on the rings of 
Saturn served by the Royal Family.  They could experience it as a totally 
real event anywhere at all - even in their (now free) replicated and totally 
portable habitat two room domestic shelter (home).

Before that all came to pass, the nanoreplicators had already produced 
clothing to order in the same fashion, as well as any other material object 
formerly created through "normal" design and manufacture.  The whole of the 
commercial transportation industry collapsed for lack of need as nothing had 
to delivered anywhere any longer.   The expression "grow your own" had taken 
on hefty economic meaning.

Prior to that, the commodities market collapsed due to the Alchemist 
Conspiracy where the nanoreplicator codes for most raw materials (pork 
bellies, cotton, wheat, corn, rice, wool, etc.) were released to the world 
through the internet by nano pirates, in the same way that encryption codes 
for information had been released to the world in the late 1990's through 
the internet.

With the loss of a need for a commodities market as well as transportation, 
wholesale and retail industries, most of the world's stock markets closed as 
companies were simply no longer needed.  Grudgingly, various governments 
noted the radical drop in the need for generating currency (electronic or 
paper) and accordingly cut back on the production of new money while having 
to abandon taxation of income and trade as both of these had virtually (pun 
intended) vanished.

The use of money came to a grinding halt as a useful means of measuring 
trade and exchange and the need for trade, barter and exchange returned to 
the same level of existence as the dinosaurs.  At the same time, the average 
human being for the first time in recorded history had more material wealth 
than all the kings and emperors of history combined.

And so now how do you collect your bet?

I'd suggest you demand a kiss.

Just my opinion,

George Smith
CI member



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