29 January 2002

Broad who? I'm doing the stiff upper lip thing here. Doc Searls is complaining about being reduced to a dialup connection "at a whopping 26.4kbps", (although to be fair, mostly he's pissed off with being severely messed about by his ISP) and the outstanding Jonathon Delacour is in trouble too: "ADSL still down. But a colleague in another area of Sydney says hers is back up. Go figure. I feel tense and unhappy without a permanent connection." Hey guys, this is all relative. Out here, a bit further* from the backbone, I've been attempting for four days to download the humongous 600Kb Radio root update. Still trying. And you're right Doc, this narrow band thing surely puts a crimp in your blogging. (* For those as bandwidth challenged as myself, the bit further link will cost you 191Kb - a gorgeous map of South America. Ecuador is on the East coast, sandwiched between Colombia and Peru.) 11:30:02 PM

The Singularity Don Norman points to this by Vernor Vinge, master sci fi author and until recently part of the Mathematics faculty at San Diego State University. Chew on this: "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended." This paper is for real. Check it out. 7:00:58 PM