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THIRD Outsourcing. M.I.T.'s No. 1 computer guru, Michael Dertouzos, said India could easily boost its GDP by a trillion dollars in the next few years performing backroom white-collar tasks for Western companies. He guessed that 50 million jobs from the white-collar West could go south to India, whose population hit 1 billion last week. The average annual salary for each of those 50 million new Indian workers...
Bush's "two trillion dollar" tax cut plan would similarly "undermine confidence, instantly increase interest rates and take us back to deficit spending," Gore said...
...trillion Paper losses investors would have incurred had the markets not rebounded...
...trade. And that was on top of a chilling drop the day before, on top of a steady erosion over the previous few weeks that in all took the index down a stunning 28.9% from the March 10 high to the April 4 low--wiping out an incredible $1.1 trillion of value...
...make gigantic campfires, or otherwise tilt the long-term odds in their favor. Life in the waning cosmic twilight might be jejune, but it could last a long time. Consider the marshaled resources of all the natural and artificial intelligences in the observable universe over the next, say, trillion years. Which would you bet on to prevail--that level of smarts or a claim, based on 19th century thermodynamics, that they're doomed...