<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>All your faith are belong to us.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(!)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Given the source - is this more of a troll on their part? What sort of readership does CNN Money have? When I want to know the generic outlook of people who are on the net, I usually check the CNN opinion poll, and then vote against the trend. Unless I am actually opposed...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Of course the change in the valuation of Google recently could more squarely be due to this, rather than earnings reports!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks Robert, this managed to clear my periphery even on /. .</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Bret K.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Robert Bradbury wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Very interesting article on CNNMoney "Imagining the Google Future" [1], also discussed on /. [2].<BR><BR>If you don't want to read the whole thing, skip down to "Scenario 4 (Circa 2105): Google is God". <BR><BR>They have the dates all wrong (its going to happen long before 2072/2105) [the writer probably doesn't want to scare people or hasn't read TSIN [or the extropian list(!) for a decade or more]] :-( but it is interesting seeing concepts we frequently discuss become mainstream. <BR><BR>Robert<BR><BR>1. <A href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/01/01/8368125/index.htm">http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/01/01/8368125/index.htm</A><BR>2. <A href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/01/194234">http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/01/194234</A><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>