stephen hawking seems to buy into the anthropic principle, too! it's all way over my head, but i like how he introduces it: "One can make the Anthropic Principle precise, by using Bayes statistics. ..":)
This Forbes ASAP article (unfortunately published 9/10) is kind of similar, but I think more comprehensive. Especially interesting is this quote:
"The big thing we realized is that governments can play a critical role--not in providing the broadband services themselves but in building out a broadband infrastructure," says Bill St. Arnaud, senior director of network projects for Canarie, Canada's advanced Internet development organization. A public/ private consortium, its goal is to have a gigabit broadband connection available to every citizen in Canada by the end of 2005.
The article mentions the city of Chicago is also providing financing to deploy it's "own" public/private consortium network called CivicNet, spurred by local business leaders, as well as a host of other local government initiatives.
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stuart kauffman and lee smolin get rid of time (i think?) in an attempt at quantum cosmology, which i guess also removes causality in the process.
stephen hawking seems to buy into the anthropic principle, too! it's all way over my head, but i like how he introduces it: "One can make the Anthropic Principle precise, by using Bayes statistics. . ." :)
you might also check out process physics and penrose's stuff on twistor theory.
The article mentions the city of Chicago is also providing financing to deploy it's "own" public/private consortium network called CivicNet, spurred by local business leaders, as well as a host of other local government initiatives.
here's a link to the good stuff:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f4400/4469.htm