The US Must Become An E-Nation

libertad · Jan 3, 2009

http://blog.tomevslin.com/

Efficiency demands it....and will be the centerpiece of the way forward....

Government....including elections

Education

New Electronic World Stock and Debt Exchange....
including boilerplate reporting, direct access....

Medical

Banking

Insurance

Information....current, historical....endless categories....

Entertainment....worldwide and local origination....replaces TV and local radio....

Business....Presentations, contracts and bidding...etc...
Work at home....etc....

Tourism (see and experience virtually first)

Efficiency.....in just about everyway imaginable....fuel savings, etc....

Lots of prospective jobs and work to be done....bandwidth, standardization in many forms, wireless and wired seamless access....

Thus the centerpiece of the way forward....

IanMacQuaide · Jan 3, 2009

Sounds great, doubtful if we'll see it in 30 yrs tho.

Kingfin2 · Jan 3, 2009

I'm all for it, but if we become more efficient (automated) where will there be any jobs (besides for the techs) for our general population? I'm just asking, in an interested way, not smartallecky.

Barth Vader · Jan 3, 2009

Sounds good, but one EMP strike and we are back in the stone age.

trendlover · Jan 3, 2009

Quote from Barth Vader:

Sounds good, but one EMP strike and we are back in the stone age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_signals :eek:

Susannah · Jan 3, 2009

Quote from Kingfin2:

I'm all for it, but if we become more efficient (automated) where will there be any jobs (besides for the techs) for our general population? I'm just asking, in an interested way, not smartallecky.

Same thing I've been wondering lately LOL. One solution is to reduce the number of hours we all work and to tax the owners of the machines that make what we use. I definitely would love the reduced # of working hours part, but I'm not sure the tax part is fair.

indexer · Jan 3, 2009

E-VERIFY - (mandatory check for citizenship to get a US job).

Barth Vader · Jan 3, 2009

Quote from trendlover:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_signals_ :eek:

Hah !!Reliable, for sure.......but I would assume there would be a multitude of EPA rules/regs that would need to be broken to send a message.

heypa · Jan 3, 2009

They will drag us kicking and screaming into the "E" age. My phone company(IDT) now wants $0.99 for a paper bill.

Random.Capital · Jan 3, 2009

Quote from libertad:

Efficiency demands it....
Efficiency.....in just about everyway imaginable....fuel savings, etc....

It takes the burning of a lump of coal to send a 10meg file coast to coast. To send a 720p movie you're looking at burning a pallet of Kingsford bags. Torrent the Hitchcock catalog back and forth and you're looking at a small mine in West Virginia.

"e" is fun, and allows exploration of long tails, but it does not come with any particular fuel savings and it sure as hell ain't "green" in any meaningful way.