Paul,
Remember my Lucious for Lucius error of the last week or so?
Since your family is short of awards (of an other than cash nature), I hearby award to you, the SI prize for excellent advice, insight and good humor.
Hope you take up Carl's offer even it means spending time in the unbelievable crowds that are normally in Vegas, much less the Comdex crowd. My view is that you ought to lead one of the group sessions. The session would be called, "The future - by Intel." If that's not going to happen, then your take on the show would be enjoyed and
appreciated. If you turn Carl down, Carl will have to report from the show in his unbiased humble manner.
By the way, I'm currently reading a very interesting book called "What Will Be". It's by Michael Dertouzos and is available through Amazon.com for $ 17.50. I recommend it
highly to the serious investors here.
Synopsis:
In this fascinating, essential guidebook to the Third Revolution, tech oracle Michael Dertouzos--head of MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and author of the bestselling Made in America--charts a uniquely knowledgeable and richly detailed map of the changes which the new technology will wreak in every aspect of readers' lives.
amazon.com
From Amazon.com:
Many have predicted what emerging technology will mean for society. Michael Dertouzos, an Internet pioneer and Head of MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science, has been among the few who've been pretty much right so far. Now he reaches into the coming century to paint a compelling, rationally developed picture of what's ahead. Dertouzos' fluid freedom from the pollyanna-ism or paranoia that afflict so many of his contemporaries brings to his visions the ring of both conviction and plausibility--and excitement as well. His crystal explanations and fascinating examples are irresistible. The result is a book as enjoyable as it is important.
Upside Magazine, Karen Southwick:
Dertouzos, a native of Greece who has headed up the MIT Computer Science Lab since 1974, divides his book into three parts: the first deals with what kind of machines technology will make possible, the second with how people will use those machines and the third with what the implications will be for humanity as a whole. The first two parts of the book, though replete with intriguing examples of technological advances, don't venture much further than the "gee-whiz" approach common in multiple predictive forums, from Wired to The X-Files. Where Dertouzos really gives us food for thought is in the third section, entitled "Reuniting Technology with Humanity." Here he presents the conundrums of the Information Age in accessible, down-to-earth fashion.
The New York Times Book Review, Rick Prelinger:
Michael L. Dertouzos' new book refreshingly attempts a return to
basics, eschewing hype and spectacle. He envisions the emerging world of information as a "21st-century village marketplace where people and computers buy, sell and freely exchange information and information services." . . . Mr. Dertouzos winces at the kind of sweeping predictions we expect from latter-day futurists. He asserts that the information marketplace "will be just another manifestation of ancient humans expending their ancient human lives in search of ancient human goals through new human tools and artifacts." There are highly readable explanations of "bodynets," virtual reality and electronic commerce. His utopia is a plausible, neighborly place, not so far from where we are now; that is the great prognostic value of his book.
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