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...than by logical ones, the bottom-uppers don't bother trying to write down the rules of thought. Instead they try to conjure thought up by building lots of small, simple programs and encouraging them to interact. Earlier in his career, Brooks helped put this approach on the AI map by building tiny, insectlike robots--"bugbots"--that wandered around his laboratory without the benefit of any single guiding program. Cog's "mind," similarly, is just a collection of loosely coordinated digital reflexes scattered among its eight processors, with no one place to point to as the seat of intelligence. "There...
Perhaps the most fascinating of these applications--and certainly the most accessible to Netheads--is Firefly http://www.ffly.com) Agents' flashy new "music-recommendation system." Firefly lets you rate records, tapes and CDs and then pools those ratings to create a "map" of your musical tastes. With thousands of users' tastes pinpointed on that same map, it becomes simple to extract dead-on recommendations from the ratings lists of your closest "neighbors." From the mingling of large numbers of relatively simple pieces of information, in other words, an uncanny sort of acumen emerges, able to make suggestions even your best friend...
...Government--working with business leaders on TV standards, with Governors on welfare reform, with local groups advocating school uniforms. "People don't want to kill government; they want to fix it," argues presidential counselor Bill Curry. "They want practical solutions that don't need a rewrite of the ideological map...
...club is the "fishing" vehicle in which we women (from numerous cities across the map) constitute the invite list. It is the stadium in which the men always enjoy home court advantage. We are playing on their turf and by their rules. we are always the guests, and they are always the hosts. The etiquette expected of a guest differs from the comfort enjoyed by the host. We are to look and act presentable, while they are to look at what is presented. We are comparable to a sea of fish who swim straight to the door and hope that...
Just how tricky that blend will be is evident in the results of the latest TIME/CNN Election Monitor, a poll that returns periodically to the same large sample of registered voters to map the shifts in their mood. If Bob Dole is right that the primaries this year are a battle for the heart and soul of the party, what he's likely to find is a detectable pulse in several far-separated points on the ideological spectrum. Is there a way to mix contented executives with angry workers? And to mix ardent pro-lifers with libertarians? If there...