Actually I don't consider myself as a Nostradamus. I like coming up with what I think are innovative ideas and I have actually been right about a lot of stuff over the years. I use the logical process of EXTRAPOLATION. It's just that innovative thinking is hard for some to follow. I made the prediction on this same forum, after buying Vue 3 (shipped from their little Paris office) that Vue would become a very important software for Poser users, and posted some pictures of Posette (this was the pre-Vicky era) rendered in Vue--- and I was ROUNDLY ATTACKED and BOO'ed by the "mindset" that existed here then. People even accused me of FAKING the renders and using LIGHTWAVE! Heh! But I think it did help E-ON to see that there was an important connection between Vue and Poser- and once they actively started to develop Poser import capability it really helped Vue's sales. E-On was smart enough to do this while the Metacreations-Bryce-Poser connection never happened- and so the rest is history... -So much for the "Open-Mindedness" that existed here for people who are forward-thinking... (and the "tradition" continues.) (Arthur C. Clarke was called just a science-fiction writer when he made the prediction about global satellites- decades before any of the technology to accomplish it existed. He also is known for the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")