I haven't written as often in the past few weeks as I used to, but I think it has more to do with the fact that I haven't had anything that I thought was really interesting happen to me. I know what it is like to get cards or e-mails that are not really interesting except for the people who write them. I am trying to make sure that kind of thing doesn't happen here. I am getting really excited lately about the new software that is coming out recently. As you all know I am now a Gmail user, and I am really happy with it so far. It really shows how important human creativity is, even in the world of technology. The possibility to make a lot of the new programs and internet services have been around for a while: it is just that no one thought of them. I am also really excited about the new Apple operating system coming out in a few days. It has a lot of things that I really like, and the video editing software is getting cheaper and better all the time. I hope to get Final Cut express this summer and then if I can find some people over at Penn State who are half as fun to make movies with than Pat and Jake, then I might invest in a few more programs that aren't too much money (luckily the Penn State education discount is pretty good).
I just think that we are living in an amazing age. We are at a point in history where we can stop and say "history needn't repeat itself any longer" We can choose to move on. We have a global community and technology that is capable of feeding and powering the world indefinitely. We just have to change the way we manage things. There is a scale by which scientists grade civilizations:
Level 3 = Inter-stellar Travel
Level 2 = Star Manipulation
Level 1 = Global Control
Global Control means control over weather and zero dependence on fossil fuels. Most experts think that man kind will either reach this point in the next 200 years, or not at all. I think that we should feel really excited to be there while this amazing start of a new world begins. I guess the worst thing is that we have to be okay with the fact that we live in a civilization at level 0 for the time being.
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I am not so sure about 0. A civilization that embraces the agenda of Bush and Friske etc might need to be calculated in negative numbers.
PS - your links are timed out
Do we have to defeat successively more difficult bosses to progress through the levels?
Don't forget to pick up all the glowing treasure chests along the way - if you get them all, the level ending will be even more spectacular!
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