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...course, the creative, intelligent computer has done far better in capturing the public imagination than have its unexciting number-crunching counterparts. A world in which computers were as creative as humans would seem to leave the poor carbon-based creatures little room to excel, especially if their silicon rivals continued to increase in speed and capacity for processing information at an exponential rate. What would the humans do in a world where their machines outsmart them...
...slightly different light. If a formula can make you look creative, maybe originality is more formulaic than the Romantic ideal of the inspired genius would imply--maybe the interactions of neurons and of transistors aren't that far apart. Literary creativity may be just the first in a number of skills future computers will acquire that are now thought to be inaccessible. In the end, answering this question could turn out to be the first achievement of computers in another field: philosophy...
...Number of average 30-sec. TV spots you could buy for that amount--equivalent to 124 days of continuous programming...
...billion Estimated number of movie tickets sold in the U.S. and Canada...
That's the point. The key reference and utility programs continue to sell well for three reasons: the number of PC owners gets bigger every year; software companies are finding new ways to adapt their products to the Web; and they keep adding new bells and whistles while holding prices in check...