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At 21:44 1999/11/02 -0800, joe and i wrote: >>...in digital electronics. It will usher in a world of >>circuits no more than a few atoms wide, with a potential >>impact on computing, in terms of speed and memory, that >>may be too profound to fathom. > >.......My own experience as a computer user these past 30 years or so >suggests that the vast advances foreseen may turn out to be only half- >vast: Information by itself is not knowledge > Knowledge by itself is not wisdom of course garbage in, garbage out [gigo] but heck who knew 30 years ago i'd be 'talking' to 1800 buddies world wide from my home in the middle of a blustery almonte night? on a computer of all things which was purchased in bermuda five years ago as my third business computer for use at home so i could 'talk' to my office and which had [has] the equivalent computing power in its innards as the entire bank of bermuda international limited 16 years earlier and which is now considered quaintly aged by current pc standards 486 25 mhz 8 mgs ram 300 mg hard drive no cd rom access to the tools is the miracle in my view e.g. in the hands of a neurological research scientist i stand back agape and in awe in the hands of a 10 year old playing 'doom' not quite so impressed janette incorrrrrigible nrrdette janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 po box 171 almonte ontario canada K0A 1A0 a new voice: <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> <[log in to unmask]>