From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 08:03:18 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Atoms vs Bits
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If you doubt that wealth and atoms 
aren't linked much these days, one need only point 
out that the total weight (in tons) of the US 
annual GDP is about the same as it was 100 years 
ago while the constant dollar value of that 
production has increased 12 fold.  

Source - Greenspan speech quoted in The Economist 
Suvey of the World Economy 28 September 1996.

DCF