High-productives as virtual entities (was Factor interaction: Self-s

> > As I (largely) previously-asked here...
> > ...why would a self-selected orbital population not:
> > 2. Have higher-than-average productive-potential?
> Potential only matters when potential is realized. Take a
> very productive person on Earth

OK.
http://bellsouthpwp2.net/r/o/robertplattbell

> and ship them into the middle of a desert or into the Arctic

Isolation-test was indeed the intention of Stage-2:

Does this count?
http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/going-virtual.html

This year, Robert Platt Bell, Registered
Patent Attorney becomes a virtual entity.

What does this mean? For starters, it
means I will no longer be physically tied
to one address or fixed location. My
practice can follow me to my condo in
Florida, or the lake house in New York,
or anywhere in between even on my boat!
[...]
With our information infrastructure, a
person in a job like mine can live
anywhere on the planet.

> and think about what happens to their productivity.

How about if we simply ask him?:

My practice has been essentially virtual
for the last five years. I have been
working from a home office without
difficulty since the new millennium.

> Earth has a more densely layered and interwoven network of
> productivity enhancing tools than does orbit because these
> tools are easier to provide on Earth than in orbit.

Do Robert Platt Bell's professional-needs seem like they would be
difficult to cater-to if he were in orbit?

So how do we make this thing portable?
The first thing is to get rid of paper.
[...] Under our new document destruction
policy, once a Patent issues, we destroy
most, if not all of the Patent file, thus
eliminating much of the bulky record
storage requirements.

Assisting in this transition, the Patent
Office now conveniently offers Public and
Private PAIR on-line. With PAIR, I can
access all of my client's files
electronically from the USPTO website
anywhere in the world there is a computer.
Not only can I check on the status of each
case, I can download image-quality copies
of all file wrapper information. If I have
a computer, I have my entire Patent docket
available to me on-line.
[...]
With the docketing software in my laptop, I
can check the status of all my cases
anywhere, and view all the documents in the
file from the Patent Office website or from
the contents of my hard drive.

In addition, the Patent Office, itself
having gone paperless, is now promoting
on-line filings as well. [...] Just point
and click, and [...] any [...] document is
filed instantly on-line. You don't have to
"be there". Being near the Patent Office is
no longer much of an advantage to a lawyer
or law firm.