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The Way Moore's Law Occurs In Computing Is Really Unprecedented In Other Walks Of Life. If The Boeing 747 Obeyed Moore's Law, It Would Travel A Million Miles An Hour, It Would Be Shrunken Down In Size, And A Trip To New York Would Cost About Five Dollars. Those Enormous Changes Just Aren't Part Of Our Everyday Experience.

It's Very Hard For Individual Inventors To Get Paid. For The Same Reason That Private Equity Is Valuable - Broadly, That's A Good Thing - In The Case Of Patents, Many That Own Them Aren't In A Good Position To Take The Next Step.

Bill, We Left Megalomania Behind A Long Time Ago. Now We Are Gigalomaniacs.

Suppose That 'unsolved Mysteries' Called You With News Of A Long-lost Identical Twin. Would That Suddenly Make You Less Of A Person, Less Of An Individual? It Is Hard To See How. So, Why Would A Clone Be Different? Your Clone Would Be Raised In A Different Era By Different People - Like The Lost Identical Twin, Only Younger Than You.

The Magic Words 'on The Internet,' If Inserted Into Nearly Any Sentence, Seem To Protect It From Normal Critical Scrutiny.