Re: Will computers ever be as simple and reliable as a refrigerato

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From: Vanguard (use_ReplyTo_at_domain.invalid)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:58:40 -0600

"mattlubic" <mattlubic@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> But Stephen Wolfram's ideas [A New Kind of Science] seem to offer a
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> path to understanding the complexity inherent in the problem.
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0464.html?printable=1

So Wolfram really doesn't have a current solution on how to construct
computers, or how to instantly educate all users in the use and
maintainence of current or future computers. When you put a tool in the
hands of a user where the tool is smarter than the user, what did you
think would happen? You really thought the user would retain control?