On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Today, for $1,000 you can buy a laptop computer with enough processing > power that back then it would have given the researchers at LANL a > priapism that lasted a week. "I now have in my possession a pocket-sized computer which, when I speak a question to it (“Who is the author of Kraken?” “Who was the fourteenth president of the Unites States?” “What is the name of John Scalzi’s cat?”) provides me an answer in just a few seconds. If I take a picture of something, the same pocket computer will analyze the photo and tell me what I’m looking at. Oh, and it makes phone calls, too. Among other things. "None of that is the cool part. The cool part is, when I speak a question to my pocket computer and it gives me a bad answer, I get annoyed. Because here in the future, when I talk to my pocket computer, I expect it to get the answer right the first time." - John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/07/28/a-passing-thought/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
