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To: foundation who wrote (3363)	9/1/2001 10:24:35 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

CDNA versus CDMA. Stephen Hawking wades into the battle [actually, is carried by his cyberbionic chariot]. Us versus It 'We' don't really have any reason to want one or the other to 'win'. That's because 'we' are not either of them. 'We' are like chimps watching the battle between humans and the machine. Neither the humans nor the machine cares about the chimps [other than as curiosity about endangered species and to have one as a pet]. But, unlike chimps, 'we' are the creators of both of them. 'We' being two lots of people - one being those who are smart enough to know how to actually do it, the other being the mob who makes up the electorate, power base, brownshirts or whatever means the mob uses to exert their power over the smart few. Ted Kaczynski and Tim McVeigh and others are already gaoled or dead in the battle between the mob, IT, CDNA and the smart few who can make both CDNA and IT. The anti-globalisation mob probably can't say exactly what they don't like and aren't aware of exactly what the heck's going on but they sure don't like GE [10,000 person demonstration against IT in Auckland the other day]. I don't believe that a biological genetic-engineered humanoid even with silicon implants and other mod cons is going to compete intellectually with cyberspace. That's because we depend on hugely slow chemical reactions to move ideas around. Biological memory and recall is a major battle. Google has vast resources and goes like lightning. We can't breach the laws of physics. Brains work at a horribly slow pace, even if we jolly them up with the best DNA we can think to clip into a brain design. He is right that we can vastly improve human brains - even using existing DNA which is available in the human gene pool or even in the whole biological gene pool. We are what we sense, so, for example, we could clip in the dog's smelling ability, bat's ears, pigeon's navigation, and all sorts as well as the brain handling of those improved senses. Imagine a world full of Irwin Jacobs type people instead of mainly the Mike Tyson intellectual style. Well, I can't actually imagine it, but I think it would be better. Certainly different. Wars would be fought on a much more sophisticated level, if nothing else. But Cyberspace and Son of Deep Blue are the future of smart, not wet chemistry, even if gene boosted. Mq

To: foundation who wrote (3363)	9/3/2001 1:21:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

<font color=blue>Get<font color=red>IT<font color=blue>Here business2.com <Riddle. What do you encounter 150 times a day and rarely, if ever, see? Here's a hint: It's something that Microsoft (MSFT) covets and chipmakers are wild about. Give up? Embedded systems. Simply put, an embedded system is just about anything with a microprocessor that's not a PC, server, or mainframe. It's the brain in your cell phone and your handheld computer, and it also controls such things as your refrigerator's cooling and defrost cycles. Your kid's Furby is on the list, as is one of Donald Rumsfeld's favorite war machines, the Tomahawk missile. More than 4.5 billion devices containing embedded systems were shipped in 2000, and tens of billions more pepper the world. And with engineers putting chips into more and more products, the growth curve is mind-boggling. "The embedded market will become everything," says Richard Newton, dean of the college of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. "Embedded systems will ultimately displace desktop computers for everything except very specific applications." Thanks to the Internet and wireless applications, embedded systems are also getting smarter in order to put things like home appliances and remote car diagnostics online. Internet godfather Vint Cerf, now a senior VP at WorldCom (WCOM), predicts that by 2010, Web traffic generated by embedded devices talking to each other could exceed that of people interacting over the Net. By 2050, he projects, there will be 110 billion machines connected to the Web -- 10 times the number of humans...contd... >