At 08:20 PM 7/23/2008 -0700, John Grigg wrote: >P.S. Damien, when do you plan for a new edition of _The Spike_? I think Kurzweil's book has made that impossible. (Pretty strange to recall that I'd already finished writing the first edition 12 years ago, and was awaiting publication in 1997...) Damien Broderick