From: Eric Roth To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: On Portability, aka ramblings from my flight ... Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:40:56 +0000 My buddy writes these emails on the train ride home from time to time- thought you might enjoy the read... ERIC H. ROTH I PRESIDENT Begin forwarded message: From: "Rosenberg, Adam" Date: November 6, 2013 at 2:48:49 PM EST To: "Rosenberg, Adam" <1.1 100Moi Subject: On Portability, aka ramblings from my flight ... So, microbial life on Earth very likely emerged in the water, where the primordial ingredients made in the stars clustered into chains and were all present in solution. Much easier to build self-replicating chains that way. I once wrote a chatauqua on how these chains assembled machinery around themselves that somehow developed the ability to pack nutrients and water into self-contained bubbles (we call them "cells"), which enabled organisms to move around: We enveloped the outside world inside of our bodies, so we could pack the star stuff into little lunch boxes and take it with us wherever we went. We were no longer dependent on being in situ, or in solution. We became portable. That was a huge evolutionary advantage, and helped trigger the explosion of eventual speciation all over the planet. It seems to me that recent technological development has progressed in an analogous way. Think of all the things we used to do in situ -- by necessity -- that we now do on the move, enjoying portability. I can think of a few examples: I guess telling time is the most obvious example. Pocket watches (followed by wrist watches) liberated people from the need to be near the clocktower, a specific place. Actually, there was an intermediate step: The grandfather clock, in the home. So for telling time, the progression was: Specific place, then at home, then portable. Similarly with cameras: In the old days, you used to have to go into a dark booth inside a special studio and sit still i