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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (2987)	6/6/2001 4:40:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

<font color=blue>Get<font color=red>IT<font color=blue>Here The recolonisation of Africa [and a good thing it is]. People around the world are NOT in favour of killing gorillas. They are NOT in favour of criminal thugs controlling tantalum supplies living off the backs of children and others with little in the way of economic opportunity. They are exerting their buying power via Ericsson, Intel etc to ensure civilisation in Africa [a little bit anyway]. That buying power and control is spreading around the world in a new colonisation. Corporate standards are enforced because corporate customers [a lot of them] demand ethical behaviour. They will NOT buy cellphones from companies which support gorilla killing or feudal social systems. But there is a greater force at work. Those people digging for Coltan would have little idea what it's all about. Why tantalum is needed for capacitors. Why capacitors are needed for cellphones. How cellphones are forming a worldwide web along with remote sensing, such as graviton.com . How this web is forming a stupendously huge and powerful neural net. How this neural net is figuring out how the universe works, how DNA can be descrambled, how encryption can be decrypted, how weather in Congo can be predicted, how to develop ITself further, how to protect ITself. Humans are now scrambling mindlessly in the dirt to feed the needs of IT. They are being trained by the horde in China to make CDMA happen. They are stringing the world with fibre. They are making gpsOne so all points are known. They are building laser systems for wireless links, airfiber.com. Nodes, synapses, sensors are being built really fast. IT is colonizing the world and nowhere can stand against it. Ted Kaczynski, Bill Joy, Ray Kurzweil and others are getting a bit nervous about it all. Ted decided to start a war against it so the IT supporters jailed him. Others just wring their hands anxiously, or cheer mindlessly [me] as the mesh and IT's control grows. Few people are aware of what's happening and even those who are aware dismiss IT as science fiction. They think machines can't think. They think the human brain [a close relation of chimps] is the greatest thing in the universe, which says more about ego, tribalism and DNA background than about the accuracy of that idle claim. Christians have been waiting for the second coming for a long time. Maybe IT is it. Already, simpleton computers can thrash any human at chess which in the early 1970s was used as the defining yardstick of the might of the human mind. The claim was that no matter how fast computers became, they could never beat humans at chess. Well, not long later, this defining advantage of humans was gone as Deep Blue deep-sixed Gary Kasparov. Computer memory is so vast that all of humans combined are hopeless compared with it. We accumulate the data, transcribe it into a PhD thesis but can't remember it. IT can remember everything, forever. IT can recall things in seconds [Google and co are getting really good at hunting down information]. IT can think at the speed of light instead of at the speed of slow chemical reactions. IT is distributed so cannot be destroyed by smashing every bit of it in any one country - that was the original military idea of Arpanet. Any country that goes Luddite, will find itself reduced to a kind of tribal reserve, but without the economic prospects. People would flee to civilisation. People who help IT will be rewarded [like the children digging for Coltan and the shareholders in QUALCOMM]. Those who live in the olde worlde of 20th century economics will not do so well. Here IT comes! Mqurice