Vint Cerf Imagines the Net's Future At NASA

destinyland writes "Vint Cerf performed an hour-long Q&A at NASA for their 'Singularity University' (which is partially funded by Google ). A question about Twitter led Cerf to imagine even more useful micro-applications using the wireless internet and cell phones, including real-time health data and checking your location against a map of known biohazards and disease outbreaks. 'These systems have applications which I think we will discover over time,' Cerf says, adding 'For me, the exciting thing to just anticipate, are the new ideas for using these instruments.' Also speaking were Ray Kurzweil and nanotechnology expert Ray Merkle. (Read an interview with SU co-founder Peter Diamandis in the new issue of H+ magazine)."

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Re:Imagine

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine having advice hooked up that could monitor for a heart attack or a stroke.

How do you hook up advice to anything? It is a non-physical recommendation.

Y'know, I've read the Bible. I couldn't find "THOU SHALT NOT PROOFREAD" anywhere.

Re:Imagine

[Philip K Dickhead]

How could the Nazis purportedly capture, transport, process, murder, incinerate/bury, etc., 6,000,000 Jews, and all this while fighting WWII on at least three fronts?

The Wehrmacht would have needed to gas more than 4,000 Jews per day, 7 days a week, for 4 years, to have murdered 6,000,000.

The number exceeds the Jewish population of Europe in 1939. How were there survivors and their children?

Even if this is not true, how can saying so be punishable by imprisonment in several "free" countries. Why is the holocaust considered a worse crime than the 300-year continuous torture and translocation of black Africans, who's deaths and suffering certainly dwarf any european experience, regardless of ethnicity?