[HenryLeeII]

The computer and ARPNet were government (mostly military) created entities but the hippies (via LSD) were the real visionaries of the PC and public Internet. In fact, in the 1970s, corporations would hire hippies to give them guidance based on their (hippies) visions.

Thanks for the Web address. Also, its no coincidence that the former bass player from Iron Butterfly ("Inna-Gada-Da-Vida"), now deceased, and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, former guitarist for Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, have both worked as government consultants in the field of rocketry.

I guess acid freaks have a role to play in this field, but just don't put them in charge of checking the O-Rings and making sure the cargo bay doors are closed!

Do you think LSD users would be useful in planning the Locke/Smith corporate utopias ("countries") that I'm proposing?

[kipita]

I don't know if the LSD-"think outside the box" hippie type people exist as they did in the 70s. But I'm excited about the "intellectual thinkers" and their visions. But I'm not one of them and am therefore not qualified to answer your question. But I've read some of the pages on Kurzweilai and they use similar words as you use. And speaking of music, it was Kurzweilai who created the musical instrument that Stevie Wonder envisioned. Maybe there is still a connection between genus level intelligence and music.