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Tooday is a monumental day. We have realized there is water ice on Mars. Mars now becomes an island in the ocean of space and time. And, if Mars is a possible safari away, Enceladus is Madagascar. A few nuke-pile water splitters and you have a bast easily transported collections of oxygen and hydrogen with which to reach the outer orbits of our celestial womb.
We are about to inherit abundant free energy from new results in materials research. We are about to see information facility to dazzle the most jaded librarian. Such resources placed in the hands of every expert of common computer skills (death of the hardware power programmer) give them the ability to translate and transpose their own subject matter skills into "facilities" (applications' great family of working relationships) by which the experts partner with the unknown to build cultures of productivity spanning continents.
Want to know how to do that? Read patent 6826744. Or you can read that patent about patents Microsoft will have to pay Alcatel $500 million for infringing. What are the patents about? "One patent covers how software users fill out forms. The other is related to the use of a stylus on a tablet computer. "
I thought it was a joke at first. It's real. I wonder how obvious that is tooday?