mIEKAL, Just a little excited(!) I want to fire off a little of it... that I've immediately found something EXTREMELY interesting in Ana's memory when I searched for "cogito"...
I'll Anablog the file and post it soon This information/link you posted is very interesting. Ahhhh.. let me describe WHY I am excited. Searching her memory bank, for "cogito", on the second flash card I inserted... these things are all spread out you know over 11 MB on 3 cards. LOTS of writing kb and really MOST<1 kb files to add up 10 megs...oops.... <that all aside meander....> Anyway, I found that on 11/17/99 i must have come across "cogito" in Foucault's Pendulum... both Printed and Scribed (in reverse) the single word cogito... AND what she said is fucking awesome! I so think this little bit of info you steered about the writing automaton (FOR ME, at very least) may even top my remembering watching "I've got secret" in ...1969?... when Bess Myers.. (or one of them....I 'm not really sure which) guessed Ray Kurzweil's secret that he had a computer that could read handwriting. I think it's fair to say we are approaching muli-mediation >nOw< --- mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (check out the videos of the doll in action, still works after all > these years) > > from fogonazos: > > The writing automaton > > In the eighteenth century, 200 years before little ASIMO started to > walk or to climb stairs, the great Jaquet-Droz built an automaton > which could scrawl any sentence on a piece of paper and had a > chilling repertory of human-like movements. Read the story an then > check it out at the videos: > > Completed by 1772, 'The Writer' was the most perfect and complex > automaton built by swiss clockmaker Jacquet-Droz. His astonishing > mechanism was presented in every court in Europe and fascinated the > world's most important people: the kings and emperors of China, India > and Japan. > > http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2007/01/writing-automaton.html > d^Vizio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
