-----Original Message----- From: Terry to Peter: > What an eclectic collection! Did you compile them yourself or were some recommended to you?
I got sidetracked at the start ... which brought into focus the paradigm shift of "group mind" - in the context of the power of the internet to instantly disseminate arcane or neglected information. The "instant meme" so to speak. Informavores United. Much has been written on this megatrend in the press, and in magazines like Wired, some of it to the point of seeming hyperbole - but in truth the significance of group-mind as an emergent property of the Web could be even more important to society than what we have been told, so far. In the context of the Rossi demo, for instance - which was essentially unannounced except in Italy (remember?) - this would have been almost a non-event which even a decade ago was ignored if not belittled, due to the negative propaganda of P&F in 1989 - which itself was only able to be countered by efforts on the internet by a small cadre of believers against the mainstream of physics and science in general - the pathological skeptics. The immensity of this paradigm shift in group-mind is that even though 98% of the World has not yet caught onto what is happening in this field - we could be witnessing the overwhelming demonstration of the www to not only amplify minor events, but to go beyond the story itself and fundamentally change society via the instant meme - due the wealth of follow-on insight and understanding - much of it coming from people who have not even followed LENR, up to now. Depending on how developments unfold in the next few weeks, or even tomorrow, it could be obvious that Rossi has opened a Pandora's box of grand possibilities which are already completely beyond his, or anyone else's control. Rossi could disappear today, but the momentum which has been put into place by the web coverage and the instant meme - will guaranteed eventual success. Even if the Mills' CIHT comes out soon and relegates E-Cat to a back table, Rossi will most likely be the name associated with Ni-H phenomena from now on. In the context of NASA, this could be the 'real' start of humanity's outward move "to the stars" - as important if not more so, in the big-picture, than Apollo 11. Even the pundits who realize that almost everything "negative" including trillions of lost wealth ... which has happened in the last 30 years (to the USA at least) goes back to oil, war for oil, OPEC, greed of Big Oil, climate change and so on - yet - these observers may not realize how a simple energy invention can change that dynamic, completely reverse the negative in a very short time - and that the process may be essentially unstoppable now (or, at least as soon as the 'tipping point' is reached ... essentially 'any day now'). Jones
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