Re: [OT] Your visions of the future.
Information transmission will only increase with increasing computer speed, which is pretty easy prediction to make. The big issue is whether or not computer sentience will happen. I think that it can happen, it is just that people may decide against it. It also depends on how you define sentience.
Also, we humans must clean up our act environmentally. Colonizing other planets seems like a feasible way to relieve pressures here at home. (it beats the alternatives)
I really hope that the Internet matures... wait I mean the Users of the Internet... heh, we have too many CS playing "l337 h4x0rz"....
I hate to push any one product, but if the digital world of machines can consolidate with iniatives like .NET, the results should be short of astounding. For instance, you no longer have to agonize over differing data formats, or incompatible devices. It all works together. Data and meta-data flow like rivers..... ooooooooooooooooooh
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When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat. The two will hover, spinning inches above the ground. With a giant buttered cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
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