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Sound Morpher INTEL PLAY, $49 Record sounds with this gizmo, then load them into your computer for warping. Humans sound like alien chipmunks, and passing cars become X-Wing fighters...
...really don't need a pen pal!" he wrote on the back of my first Goulet Christmas card, in which I was introduced, twice, to a pleasantly revealing picture of his wife Vera. "What I need is a buddy! Will you be my buddy???" Underneath, he drew an angry alien. I decided it was best to call. After I listened to some Goulet tunes while on hold, Goulet picked up, talking loudly and frequently calling me "the kid." Our relationship flourished over the next year, with letters, free Goulet CDs and voice-mail critiques of my columns: "Armpit smelling? There...
...just products and components but the factory itself--creating a digital manufacturing system for the New Economy. One thing that caught his attention was the problem of the powder press. He wondered if it was possible to update the Industrial Age brute. Before he could venture onto this alien turf, however, he knew he needed help--and realized he could get it from his younger brother Glenn...
...NEXT QUESTION Which, of course, brings up the issue of how we mere human inventors are going to keep up. As an inventor, I have more than a passing interest in this question. My view, however, is that these developments do not represent an alien invasion of intelligent machines. They are emerging from within our human/machine civilization, and the intelligence we are creating is both derivative of and an extension to our human intelligence. We are already placing today's generation of intelligent machines in our bodies and brains, particularly for those with disabilities (e.g., cochlear implants for the deaf...
...escape, I shut down the television and radio and computer. I take up a book, one that is as far as possible from the noise - Lytton Strachey's essay on the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. It starts with a thought that is utterly alien to the culture we live in: "In what resides the most characteristic virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such, David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar.... To have...