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...there's been little worry of wily computers inventing ways to outsmart (and replace) their owners. The annoying little paperclip in Microsoft Word is no great testament to the progress of artificial intelligence. But the claim that computers can't create has been challenged by two recent experiments, in which the output of computer programs--rigid algorithms with little room for intellectual freedom--was judged to be indistinguishable (or even better!) than the attempts of unconstrained human imaginations. In other words, originality may be a little more unoriginal than we thought...
Technology isn't weird science; it's everyday life. It's e-mail. It's the government wanting to bust up Microsoft, Y2K threatening the globe, the Internet challenging the mall. Ignore it? O.K. But then forget about beating the market, and go buy an index fund. Really. You'd get a market weighting in tech stocks (24% of the S&P 500) along with low expenses and tax-efficient management. That's a great deal...
...MICROSOFT, ALL THE TIME What, me a monopoly? Judge Jackson's findings don't seem to have discouraged the rebels from Redmond. The two compact MSN Web Companions that made their first live appearance at Comdex may have been built by the European TV maker Vestel, but everything else about them is pure Microsoft. The Web-only terminals run Microsoft's slimmed-down Windows CE, connect with MSN Internet access and feature MSN Web services like Hotmail. Due out next year, they'll retail...
...nightmare scenario. Talk to the software engineers, the ones who have been wading knee-deep in the raw computer code for some time now, and you'll find they are hardly planning to head for the hills. "I have no stockpile of water at home and no generator," says Microsoft's Y2K director Don Jones, "and I have a nine-month-old son. My wife says, 'Shouldn't we at least do a little something?'" Only as much as you'd prepare for a three-day blizzard, goes the prevailing advice...
...said that Microsoft's reason for bundling Internet Explorer was valid, likening it to an essential part of Windows just as windshield wipers are an essential part of an automobile...