Yeah, it's MS, but before jumping completely on the stomp-it-dead bandwagon, I'd say this:
We thought Apple was dead once too. If MS can do some real innovation here, and bring a new paradigm to an operating system, we'll be lucky. Innovation never hurt anyone, and it may come when you least expect it.
If Apple can pull off a 180, so can Microsoft.
Yeah, it is true that in the event of a devastating disaster that threatens humankind, computers will be of little help. I was more thinking along the lines of the printed Wikipedia version: Anyone can add information to the "collective". In this day and age, I'd wager that Wikipedia is the most "collective" form of human knowledge. If we're going to count other things, I think the web as a whole would be considered as such, but good luck printing that out.
He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper containing "the basic accumulated scientific knowledge of humanity."
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Yeah, it's MS, but before jumping completely on the stomp-it-dead bandwagon, I'd say this: We thought Apple was dead once too. If MS can do some real innovation here, and bring a new paradigm to an operating system, we'll be lucky. Innovation never hurt anyone, and it may come when you least expect it. If Apple can pull off a 180, so can Microsoft.
Christianity and the belief in a technological singularity are not mutually exclusive.
I also would like to know about Stackless.
Yeah, it is true that in the event of a devastating disaster that threatens humankind, computers will be of little help. I was more thinking along the lines of the printed Wikipedia version: Anyone can add information to the "collective". In this day and age, I'd wager that Wikipedia is the most "collective" form of human knowledge. If we're going to count other things, I think the web as a whole would be considered as such, but good luck printing that out.