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...time for the final, fastest dance chorus. Lightning and a thunderclap cue a quick change in the emotional weather. Ginger hears this, but she's not frightened, as she was a few minutes ago; now she's jizzed. The horn section starts bleating like impatient klaxons, modulates seven times, up the whole scale, as the dancers do slide-taps, facing each other, too close for comfort. Something's got to give, and it's the music. The trumpet blasts a kind of sexual cavalry call, to which the two respond with a furious stomp; they've got firecracker feet. Fred...
...become almost impossible for human beings to manage the kinds of information-technology systems that we have created and we have foisted on the rest of the world." --Paul Horn...
...tough job and one that will take much more effort than Horn and his 3,200 IBM researchers can muster: it will take an entire global industry. Horn has begun a crusade to make a reality of what he calls "autonomic computing," a network equivalent to the body's autonomic nervous system. That's what tells your heart to beat faster when you run to catch a bus or tells you to sweat when...
...until now there has been no holistic approach to networks--just efforts to make storage or servers more efficient on their own, Horn says. And though the recession has shrunk technology budgets, financial constraints often encourage this kind of enhancement to efficiency. "The biggest demand for automation often occurs in economic downturns," he says. "I can't go to a company that doesn't say, 'I need to automate. I've got to get my costs down...
...hope is that those displaced won't be unemployed for long. Horn argues that innovation has historically created new opportunities far greater than the jobs it destroys. Says Kurzweil: "Jobs are going to be more fulfilling, because in order to contribute meaningfully, we will have to operate at a really human level, which still today most human jobs do not require." That could bring a new luster to the teaching and nursing professions...