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From your lecture, you seem like a very modest person. How are you handling the adulation? -Vernon Hines, Columbia, Md.First off, I reject the premise. Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws. As for handling the response from people, this has been a tough time, and it has been greatly buoying to my spirits to have so many people rooting...
...took your computer-science class in college. What milestones in virtual reality do you want those who follow in your footsteps to reach? -Mathew Morton, BostonVirtual reality thus far has focused on bizarre, interesting perceptual thrills. I'd like to see them move on and try to really tell interactive stories. How do you put the user in control? It's a nuanced problem that's going to take a lot of smart people working for a long, long time...
Einstein once said, "It's a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." What would you say to that? -Muhammad Damanhori, Makkah, Saudi ArabiaThat reminds me of Mark Twain, "Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education." I always tell my students that they should spend their time in whatever way helps them learn. I'm perfectly happy if they cut my class because they were doing something that was a better use of their time...
...doesn't our government tell the tobacco growers to replace 10% of their crops with corn or soybeans? If they did this for 10 years, we could lower the rate of the nation's No. 1 preventable cause of death--smoking--while providing more sources for biofuel. Of course, politicians from tobacco-growing states would never allow this. Gary Dillingham, HOMER...
Grandpop took seriously his committeeman role. "I brought in the best division in the city," he would tell us, an insistent pride in his declaration. We grandkids would say that was chiefly because the old neighborhood had become almost entirely African American, already at that point the party's most reliable base. The exceptions were Grandpop and the guy next door, whom he described as "Nice fella ... Polish...