> Gee Russell, you are SO cheery. Is it the water?

Comes from eating lots of fish oil, apparently :-).
(According to SW?)

> I was surprised to see "too cheap to meter" attributed to Edison. I
> remember it being attached to 1950's -era nuclear power plants.

Yes. I got it wrong :-).
Walter Marshall.

Amusingly, here's a 1995 quote

         On the one hand, we tend to succumb to the various merchants of 
hype, overestimate short-term spread of technology as of its salutary 
impact-"a helicopter in every garage"; "Atomic power too cheap to meter"; 
the "Internet in every classroom."
From: http://www.citi.columbia.edu/elinoam/articles/DUMBOOK.htm

They got the helicopter and power predictions correct. But, I wonder what 
they'd think of OLTPC?.

> have a good day...

I always try to :-)
.
But, what I was doing was responding to the intentional (I assumed) 
overstatement  in

>> ... will find largely unlimited resources  ... transformed by 
>> nano-technology and cheap power ( solar, fusion,
>> zero-point ) ... which will vastly increase productivity. ...

And, I think my comments about Fusion were about correct. No?
I look forward to the day when they (we?) start selling power from Fusion 
plants. Or, better still, giving it away for a flat rate payment, because 
it's too cheap to meter :-).

  Russell

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