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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (65937)	11/28/2004 9:36:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 71178

<...which freaked me out. How should a phone know? "Sattalites, GPS" they told me, rather haughtily. That is what I think of time today. Teens know more of it than I do, and cellphones are smartest of all.> You should feel very freaked out. Cellphones [cyberphones increasingly] are not much smarter than a neuron. But link up billions of neurons [or whatever those little cells in our brains are called], plug them into some externalities with some feedback loops and bingo, we have a mega brain. Which works really fast [time delay due to distance around Earth notwithstanding] compared with our brains - while our brains try to recall the name of something, It will have recalled all such names and located them and done a megaflop's worth of calculating and comparing. Contrary to popular mythology, human brains are not the end-point of evolution. They are just the zeolite catalyst used to frame the next phase of intelligence, just as chimpoid brains were just the framework for continued biological evolution to derive better-still human brain power. Cyberphones knowing the time shouldn't impress you. You will be much more impressed soon enough. If you thought the industrial revolution was impressive, you are going to be VERY, VERY impressed with what's coming. Compare Google with 15 years ago. What's amazing is how easily we adopt all these things and take them for granted and barely notice the change and are blissfully unaware of what it's going to mean in the grand scheme of things when it's fully absorbed into how things are done. Mqurice