From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Aug 27 2001 - 23:44:18 MDT
>From: "Robert Coyote" <coyyote@hotmail.com>
>when ppl inevitably ask "but what do we NEED this speed for" especially Joe
>consumer
>what do we say?
1. Virtual nuclear testing
2. Proteomics research (which may well cure Joe of all his physical
ailments)
3. Physics modeling and research
5. Near unbreakable encryption
4. Perhaps most persuasive to Joe, dramatic amelioration of the "digital
divide." When IBM is mass-marketing teraflop PC's, how much do you think a
Pentium 4 WinXP box will go for?
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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