That's the new way - with computers computers computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and today I think we have reached the target.
When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive they took all the computers all the literature and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
China has legally purchased high performance computers advanced machine tools and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices computers which already can register and process huge amounts of information which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves as a species can process.
Every ISP is being attacked maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers they want to hack them they want to steal information.
Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So too the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one in which information is given well-defined meaning better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers what people's problems are and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway ' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.