[He shrugs] Probably safe to say, but then that's speaking from the inside as it's going on. I would think it much easier to pass such judgments as an external observer, after it has already taken place. Perhaps in another hundred years I can better answer that question. As for artificial sweeteners -- my experience with them is limited to this very moment -- if they are meant to substitute proper sugar, should they taste so very different? [He sees it as an issue of quality. As a man who runs a factory that, on occasion, puts out some very "cost-effective" products, the notion of 'calories,' even when mentioned, does not occur to him as being the sole reason for it.]