To Heather - futurism

Is there much difference? Why bother to send you this second letter, except to pester you, probably when you are most busy, except that they beauty of this sort of electronic communication is that you can read it at your leisure.  I don't know why so many people still drive, as the time can be better spent with the connectivity of electronics.  It is absurd, apart from wasteful and polluting etc.

I think the only reason that I am sending you the slightly revised attachment is that it gives me a chance to continue to write to you.  I like thinking how you will read these words and it will be like talking while sitting in the cafe, except we won't be together in time or space, and yet the mental consequences will be identical, in the sense that reading this must be the same as hearing me say these worlds, or better as they can be written and read much faster than said and heard. 

Soon there will be machines that induce the thought of sounds, by wearing a cap with electrodes or something, and then people like Brett will be able to play music directly on our brains instead of the tedious step of turning into sound waves and then back into qualia.

When will the machines convert thoughts into text without the need to type it?  That will be a very brave, new world.  Eventually, visual images that we imagine within our own, individual minds, will be able to be read electronically, and converted to some sort of holographic image that can be seen in three dimensions by other people, and perhaps entered if it is full size, so we can visit and walk around in other people's minds. 

Particularly in old age, when our bodies have shrivelled back to baby proportions, we will be suspended in comfort while inhabiting cyberspace, communicating directly with our thoughts.  If only I can manage to live long enough to benefit from the future. 

We are on the edge of an exploding time, with the generation of energy of various types rising to unprecedented levels.  It could be a consequence of Global Warming where some of the excess energy converts from Atmospheric, like temperature of strength of huricanes into Social Energy, and is absorbed by human Social Systems.  This could be facilitating the Globalisation of many human activities that are much larger Social Systems than the world has previously known.  As a seperate energy topic, we are surely close to the cross over in energy production when we start to produce more than we need.