IĞll really like to speak English enough to have other words to say, but I only can say, Well said Wagner ...! Daniel. -----Mensaje original----- De: Wagner Lipnharski Para: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Fecha: MiŽrcoles, 08 de Diciembre de 1999 02:40 p.m. Asunto: [OT] A Remarkable Gift >It will be a simple new year as usual, and how it passes fast as you get >old... > >It will be a special new year. For several people like me, it still not >yet the beginning of a new millennium, but what a heck, for almost 99% >of the 6 billion people it will be, so what matters if we all can enjoy >and commemorate it as best as we can. > >I will be out of the net until January, so I will unsubscribe this list >for a while but I will be reading my email. > >I also want to say that it has being a remarkable gift to share my time >with you all, and see you doing the same with other piclisters, and >mostly knowing that we all will cross together this so much important >event, a new millennium, a door that opens to a complete bright and >marvelous future. > >You can be sure that in this new millennium you can not blink your eyes >anymore. The new discoveries and technologies will be happening so fast >that you will be able only to follow a little piece of it. > >The Mars Lander experience should be accounted as one more success of >our technology. It doesn't matter so much if it landed or not, and if we >can communicate with the device or not, well, it would be great if all >the mission was a complete success, but we need to remember that our >knowledge is based in failures. One can only acquire knowledge from >failures, there is no other way. Congratulations to the Jet Propulsion >Lab and all the technicians and engineers involved in it. If you feel >bad when your PIC project doesn't work well, or when things are so bad >that you think it is better to kick it and take a beer and turn on the >TV, imagine what those guys are feeling about the Mars Lander, without >any possible way to find out what is happening... Hey guys, you did >great, better luck next time. > >We need to remember that in less than a single generation time, we went >from the first documented airplane flight with Mr. Alberto Santos Dumont >in Paris (by the way another brazilian fellow) up to send robots to >Mars. It is very few time of evolution, and we did it all. We should be >proud of it, and we will do much more, wait and see. > >Right now because the information technology, China is consuming 30 >thousand new phone lines *daily*, at this rate, if each family of 3 or 4 >plans to have one phone line, we are talking about 250 Million phone >lines, and it will take 10 thousand days, or 30 years. Of course it will >be faster, so they (and we) should be prepared to an astronomic silicon >and software invasion in our lifes, much more than what is happening >already. > >The word here is: Be Prepared. Things will change. > >I guess that Internet will be one of the most important vehicles that >will change the world, countries bounderings and money exchange. It >will not make sense anymore why I can not pay my bills via Internet, or >do everything I want, shopping, super market, food, movies, cinema, >school, working, and things we don't even imagine yet. > >I guess that we are just at the dawn of the technology age, and this >time will be remembered forever. > >It is a remarkable gift to be part of it. > >See you guys at the next millennium, it is knocking the door already. >Merry Christmas and Happy new Year. > >Wagner Lipnharski & family.