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Regardless Of How It's Done, Transaction Costs Will Continue To Plummet As Computers Get More Powerful. Low Transaction Costs Are A Wonderful Thing If You're In The Transaction Business. They're Wonderful For Consumers Too, Making It Cheaper And Easier To Buy Things And Creating New Things To Buy.

Now, To Find Dinosaurs, You Hike Around In Horrible Conditions Looking For A Dinosaur. It Sounds Really Dumb, But That's What It Is. It's Horrible Conditions, Because Wherever You Have Nice Weather, Plants Grow, And You Don't Get Any Erosion, And You Don't See Any Dinosaurs.

Computing Has Gone From Something Tiny And Specialized To Something That Affects Every Walk Of Life. It Doesn't Make Sense Anymore To Think Of It As Just One Discipline. I Expect To See Separate Departments Of User Interface, For Example, To Start Emerging At Universities.

There Is A One-in-300 Chance That Earth Will Be Struck On March 16, 2880, By An Asteroid Large Enough To Destroy Civilization And Possibly Cause The Extinction Of The Human Race. But, On The Bright Side, Prince Could Re-release His Hit Song With The New Refrain 'we're Gonna Party Like Its Twenty-eight Seventy-nine.'

Nobody Wants A Prediction That The Future Will Be More Or Less Like The Present, Even If That Is, Statistically Speaking, An Excellent Prediction.