By 2007 we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

In the earliest days this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice instead of what we have today a voice network struggling to carry data.

At this point I can't say what network would be picking it up but I know that it would be a success.

Now I know you expected me to say that well I just kick back in the rocking chair fished a little bit listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And tell you the truth I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.

A brain is a society of very small simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together out of that arises a kind of smartness.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

If you just have a single problem to solve then fine go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures or how to go to a new problem you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.

According to materialistic science any memory requires a material substrate such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.