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...longstanding scientific pedigree. It was back in 1959 that Richard Feynman, arguably the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, gave a talk titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," in which he suggested that it would one day be possible to build machines so tiny they would consist of just a few thousand atoms. (The term nanotechnology comes from nanometer, or a billionth of a meter; a typical virus is about 100 nanometers across...
...another way, they will not know "computers" as a distinct category of object or function. This, I think, is the logical outcome of genuinely ubiquitous computing, of the fully wired world. The wired world will consist, in effect, of a single unbroken interface. The idea of a device that "only" computes will perhaps be the ultimate archaism in a world in which the fridge or the toothbrush is potentially as smart as any other object, including you, a world in which intelligent objects communicate, routinely and constantly, with one another and with...
...hands with 19th century precedent. I propose that the candidates get out of their rocking chairs one night a week and participate in a kind of post-Clinton presidential Olympics, an event that might, in the TV listings, be called Who Wants to Be a President? The game would consist of a series of challenges, exemplary events that would test the candidates while sparing the public their self-serving improvisations...
Even though what the audience sees on stage is improvisation, Krebs says, the troupe takes practice very seriously. They practice four hours a week with extra rehearsals before special events. IGP shows mostly consist of improvisation games the performers play with words and situations contributed by the audience...
...hands with nineteenth century precedent. I propose that the candidates get out of their rocking chairs one night a week and participate in a kind of post-Clinton presidential Olympics, an event that might, in the TV listings, be called "Who Wants to Be a President." The game would consist of a series of challenges, exemplary events that would test the candidates while sparing the public their self-serving improvisations...