<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Why do any of these things require quantum computers? A chip in the head plus ubiquitous connectivity could give much of what is listed. Further down the road MNT could do a better job of interfacing brain to network internal and external computational/communication resources. Wild? Depends a lot on the audience.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:45 AM, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Fortune magazine on <A href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/futureof_tech/" class="external text" title="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/futureof_tech/" rel="nofollow">the future of computing</A> - <A href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/technology/futureoftech_kirkpatrick.fortune/index.htm" class="external text" title="http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/technology/futureoftech_kirkpatrick.fortune/index.htm" rel="nofollow"> Coming soon: Google on your brain</A>: Simply speak a question, or even think it. You will always be connected wirelessly to the network, and an answer will return from a vast, collectively-produced data matrix - <A href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/magazines/fortune/futureoftech_quantum.fortune/index.htm" class="external text" title="http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/magazines/fortune/futureoftech_quantum.fortune/index.htm" rel="nofollow"> Quantum Leap</A>: Brain prosthetics. Telepathy. Punctual flights. A futurist's vision of where quantum computers will take us. Ask scientists to predict how quantum technology will change the world over the next 20 years or so, and their imaginations go wild.<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>