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Wired

by John Cole|  August 13, 200510:02 am| 4 Comments

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If you haven’t already, check out this month’s Wired magazine, which has two fun stories, one about milbloggers by one of my favorite reporters, John Hockenberry (who is great on NPR’s The Infinite Mind), and this piece on how much the internet has changed things over the past ten years. The story about Banksy is worth a read, as well.

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    tBone

    August 13, 2005 at 10:36 am

    From Wired:

    Since each of its “transistors” is itself a personal computer with a billion transistors running lower functions, the Machine is fractal. In total, it harnesses a quintillion transistors, expanding its complexity beyond that of a biological brain. It has already surpassed the 20-petahertz threshold for potential intelligence as calculated by Ray Kurzweil. For this reason some researchers pursuing artificial intelligence have switched their bets to the Net as the computer most likely to think first.

    So that’s why Skynet eradicates the human race – it woke up and found itself surrounded by cheesy porn, popup ads, leet kids, and gasbag bloggers. (Present company excluded of course.)

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    Otto Man

    August 13, 2005 at 11:11 am

    Hockenberry was on the Daily Show this week. Sounded like a sharp guy.

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    Stormy70

    August 13, 2005 at 6:17 pm

    I like this guy, myself.

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  1. Poor Richard's Anorak says:
    August 13, 2005 at 11:14 pm

    Balloon Juice

    Link: Balloon Juice. Thanks to John for pointing out this article in Wired. I will always remember John Hockenberry’s fabulous overnight radio show on NPR during the late 80s. I loved the show, and I still think it was some of the best radio I have ev…

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