<CDMA passed the million subscriber milestone in Q3.
Looking at this year wirelessly I think that the two most significant events were ...>
Eric, welcome to 2002. It's day 2 now, heading for [20.02 being two minutes past eight in the evening]
20.02 20.02.2002 [which I am going to celebrate as a great palindrome time and probably the tip of the cusp leading away from the biological world to It's nirvana.
So far, 2002 is looking okay.
Did you mean 100 million subscribers for CDMA in Q3?
How about GSM sales started decreasing with December sales less than December 2000. CDMA sales continue roaring ahead and about to accelerate as China gets serious about it.
Another great year coming. People have been given a head-fake by It. The smoke-screen of WTC, the dot.bomb and techwreck have tricked people into thinking that it's a gloomy and doomy world. Nothing could be further from the truth. Major Paradigm Shift is happening. Out of the smokescreen will loom a jaw-droppingly large spectre. It will be sort of, but not quite, entering the awareness of people. A kind of, "Is that something moving, or just my imagination?" On the edge of being. But nah, It's nothing. Was it? A bit like children can lie in the grass and see shapes in the fluffy clouds.
While the human chimpoids murder each other over whose religion is the one true one and who is alpha male, something much, much larger is on the move. Larger, yet, like a ghost, not quite real. But as real as what passes for a mind in the chimpoids.
As real, but with a trillion times better memory and recall and with billions of times better perception, with eyes, ears and transducers all around the world and in space and underground and undersea and with vastly faster processing speed, using photon and electron flow rather than bucket chemistry.
You can do a little memory test here: google.com
You can check out transducer development here: graviton.com
Eyes on the world here: webcam.com
Pattern matching and 'thinking' are a bit more tricky but simple automatically monitored events are processed, automatically, and production or other responses made without human intervention. Neural net and quantum computing processes can find better solutions. The pace is picking up. But it was a millennium ago that Deep Blue laid waste to the idea that chess, the ultimate 'thinking' game, was the province of people. Now, people change the rules to define 'thinking'.
That's okay, it's Calvinball, where the rules can be changed to try to ensure victory in a losing situation. alloftheabove.net
But I'm not betting on Calvin.
Mqurice |
