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To: George Gilder who wrote (1103)	3/28/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

Re: Overthrows Like the PC overthrew the mainframe? It seems to me that in the computer business new technology "grows around" existing technology more than displaces it. As a result, new markets develop and exist in parallel with ever-changing existing markets. Smart cellphones may well be ubiquitous by 2010 but does that mean that they will suffice by themselves? Somehow I doubt it. Businesses aren't going to run their operations on cellphones no matter how "smart" they get. The Sony Walkman did not replace the home audio system--it simply expanded the audio market by creating a parallel market which coexisted with the more "traditional" concept of what an audio system was. The same will likely happen with the computer market. This is not a zero-sum game no matter how much McNealy and company wish it were.

To: George Gilder who wrote (1103)	3/28/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: Immi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

george, what are your thoughts on etek, the maker of passive optical components.? It competes with JDS Fitel. Thanks, Immi

To: George Gilder who wrote (1103)	3/29/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

Do you think artificial intelligence will be possible eventually? Do you have any thoughts on the subject? The dictionary definition of Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate ones environment. Do you think if "software agents" and computing power became sophisticated enough in the future, in manipulating our environment for us, that they have the potential to exhibit some form of artificial intelligence? or is even the networked sum of human intelligence, incapable of accumulating to the point necessary for us to produce such a creation? Thanks, JW