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The only real way I see of swinging the power back to the people is to use encryption in all our personal communications, that includes e-mail, voice, video. Unfortunately there is a very real possibility that the government has access to the CA keys so that it would render any encryption useless.

However, it seems that a new type of quantum key distribution system [1] may allow us citizens to share the keys such that not even the government may be able to get them. I don't really know much about this but it does seem promising. It may be the only way to ensure that only those that we choose can see our data. I would not be surprised though if the government tried to pass laws to make such technology illegal. Just like it tried to make military grade encryption illegal by claiming it was a munitions weapon.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_key_distribution

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

No is not. To you maybe, but not to me. It just looks like a coincidence and that is like I will take it until further evidence emerges. Otherwise we just look like the religious morons whom claim that their religious text is the correct one because it predicted a historical event somewhere in the last two thousand years.

It is revenge of the nerds. I don't know if it is a good thing, bad thing, or it doesn't matter but it sure makes a lot of people feel better. And to be honest, the MBAs do have a lot of it coming to themselves, not all of it, but a lot.

You would think. I hope you are right but people seem a lot more preoccupied with the Kardashians and Lindsay Lohan. Even smart people with college degrees and everything.

Doesn't make it any less worse does it.

A person receiving this implant will be able to receive more than just visual input from the world. He could receive input from the internet, or a virtual reality world. I imagine this is the first step of us moving to the net.

It felt very derivative. It didn't really immerse you into the story that you would forget you were there.

It was OK. I don't think it was better than TNG when it first came out.

Completely agree. As a guy living along in college some of the best nights would be watching Start Trek TNG. Just the opening was incredible. It made me feel like it really was the future.

>>It's interesting how you belittle me because my numbers aren't big enough on the Brabble app.

Sorry about that. It was uncalled for. Honestly I thought you were just making stuff up. You've certainly done more than most.

Since you brought it up, which companies are those? Otherwise It just seems like you are making it up to make yourself look better.

By the way, I've also made iOs apps that barely get any ratings.

Good point. I do not know if there have been, or not, any offers. What I do know is that their technology so far is not impressive, it is pretty average.

>>Seriously? The bar to being successful is an acquisition offer from Google? I'd understand if money was the driving factor. But Jeff Hawkings has already made a bunch of that from his previous ventures and to me at least, it seems that he's genuinely passionate about building something extraordinary. So, I'm still rooting for Numeta.<<

The thing is, Since On Intelligence came out I haven't really seen any real products from them. Sure, they created some tools that they expect other developers to build projects on top of them but that is it. Honestly, with all his talks claiming how his algorithms are much better than the current state of the art I would expect really good image recognition, speech recognition or something like IBM's Watson to come out of their labs. But everything I've seen from them seems average. Not that much better than the state of the art.

If they had anything groundbreaking and I were google, I'd want to acquire that technology to further the goal of Strong AI. Google is interested in producing AI and will acquire anybody that can help it with that goal. Google is not interested in Numenta's technology, and I'm sure they've checked their technology, which makes me think that Numenta doesn't really have much to offer.

Whether Jeff is interested in selling or not is irrelevant.

I'm just going to throw this out there in the hope that someone enlightens me.

Ever since I first read the book "On Intelligence" I thought Jeff Hawkings was on the right track with Strong AI. The insights I got from reading the book I thought were invaluable. I don't know how close they are to Strong AI or if they are closer then anybody else but I would expect that if they were making any real head way into the field that Google would already have made an offer to buy them.

At least that is what I would do if I wanted to be the first to control the technology. The fact that nobody seems interested in acquiring them sends the signal that they probably are no better than anybody else building AI tools.