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Just try covering a PC for the same reason if Apple were to visit. Bet you never would. Harvard has fallen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...Spitfire he bought for $2,000"). These folks treasure their cars and might not think highly of a fellow who stole them. Yet the film has few quibbles about the ethics of boosting. Hey, guys in the film (and guys who made it): maybe a wage slave left his PC in the trunk of that Toyota you stole; maybe a child's first drawing is in the glove compartment of that HumVee pickup. For people who love their cars to make a movie that lionizes a person who steals them is a textbook case of sociopathic schizophrenia. We almost hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

WILL CYBERSEX BE BETTER THAN REAL SEX? WILL SMELL-O-VISION REPLACE TELEVISION? WILL WE STILL DRIVE OUR CARS (OR WILL OUR CARS DRIVE US)? WHAT WILL OUR CARS LOOK LIKE? WILL I STILL BE ADDICTED TO VIDEO GAMES? WILL FRANKENFOOD FEED THE WORLD? WILL MY PC BE SMARTER THAN I AM? WILL WE PLUG CHIPS INTO OUR BRAINS? WILL ROBOTS RISE UP AND DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS? WILL EVERYTHING BE DIGITAL? WILL WE STILL TURN PAGES? WILL WE CLOSE THE BOOK ON BOOKS? WILL TINY ROBOTS BUILD DIAMONDS ONE ATOM AT A TIME? WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY? WHAT WILL REPLACE SILICON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Technology | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

There may be a silver lining to all this. If Moore's law somehow continues unabated, then by some estimates our computers by 2050 will be calculating well beyond 500 trillion bytes per sec., at which point, as Ray Kurzweil suggests (see "Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am?"), they will be considerably smarter than we are. Evolution says organisms are replaced by species of superior adaptability. When our robots tire of taking orders, they may, if we're lucky, show more compassion to us than we've shown the species we have pushed into oblivion. Perhaps they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Replace Silicon? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...PC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Our Duty to Pooh-Pooh This PC-Plagued 'Shaft' | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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