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To: Ruffian who wrote (38467)	8/22/1999 2:30:00 PM
From: JohnG	Respond to of 152472

Michael P. Saw him on Star Trek. He was a Borg. JohnG

To: Ruffian who wrote (38467)	8/22/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

It <Mann envisions a day when man and machine interact almost naturally, without conscious effort. Indeed, Mann?s own dexterity and ability to multitask with his wearable computer point to that evolution. He calls his computer a third hemisphere of his brain, capable of storing more data and crunching more numbers than his organic brain ever could. ?People miss the real essence of what I?m doing,? Mann says. ?Yes, I can do e-mail. Yes, I have a Web server on my body. But what?s going on here is existential technology, dropping the boundaries between man and machine.? > It all seems to be happening faster rather than slower. A third hemisphere of our brains?! That sounds very useful. It would help students sitting rote learning examinations for a start, which test only memory, not thinking or understanding. It would be nice to have the knowledge in It available at the click of a thought. Interesting url Michael. Thanks! Nice to see Qualcomm sponsoring that site too. OFDM and VDMA don't seem to be much threat and Qualcomm will surely be a licensee if it all amounts to anything. There is a LOT of money to made over the next 10 years in cdmaOne and cdma2000 before those become a threat anyway. Watching again the 3G confernce, when Irwin was saying that the extra size of an ASIC for multimode 3G would be reasonable with extra software behind the ASIC to do the bulk of the work for a total cost and loss of efficiency which would be tolerable, I got the impression that he thinks the delays in getting a multimode 3G workable could be significant. In the meantime, cdma2000 will be going flat out and might yet become a de facto standard in the absence of the multimode solutions. NTT, Telecom NZ and others are under so much competitive pressure that they can't goof around for half a decade while Ericy shrinks their W-CDMA solution from large suitcase size or small truck size, down to handset size. Even then, multimode still might not work good enough to appeal to subscribers compared with straight cdma2000 products. The whole story of Q! just gets interestinger and interestinger. It's nice that the share price does too! Mqurice