Makridakis and I estimate that, because of iatrogenics, if we cut medical expenses by half, and ration to levels close to Europe, life expectancy would rise in the US.

(E-READERS for NERDS, 2): Information is to the reading experience what calories are to a meal. You should consider that you may want to maximize taste, and minimize information ingested (beyond a point), the exact opposite of what the E-reader offers.

(This is the same mistake neophiliacs made when they imagined us ingesting pills in place of classical foods).

Don’t let those who need you know that you know that they need you.

When people talk about e-books v/s books, they focus on SIMILARITIES between the two (they assumes book=information). I have never heard a user address the large differences between the two, like smell, texture, dimension (3D), color,haptic “feel”, physicality of an object. When the same businessman compares his version of an e-reader to another one, he will invariably focus on the small minute DIFFERENCES.

More boring Appendix (sorry to be technical in these exciting times but I need to calm down as I fear disappointment in Egypt) – my own derivations of Gott’s law based on the great Mandelbrot’s fractals.

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I wrote that a technology (book, cultural practice, religion) or any nonpresishable item is likely to increase in life expectancy upon mere aging –the opposite of perishable variables, like, say, humans.