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Coral Structures Analyzed By Computers ... Let's start with a short introduction about coral species. Corals can, for instance, be ball-shaped or formed like a tree...

Building Cheap Computers In 3 Easy Steps ... Just a decade ago, the only people who put computers together were those individuals who possessed an extensive technical background... This change has resulted in average people who have a basic understanding of computers being able to build a system themselves... Whether you are interested in building computers to establish a new hobby or to start a business, you can so in only a few easy steps and on a shoestring budget...

Computers And Web Cams Are Taking Communication To Levels On ... One of the most incredible inventions I’ve ever come across is the web cam and its process of video conferencing. This is just so futuristic I can’t believe they really exist and are readily available to anyone with the Internet, speakers, and the right software...

Another Step Toward Quantum Computers ... These experiments have been conducted by Christoph Boehme, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Utah, and his colleagues at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin and the Technical University of Munich. Here is a quote from Boehme...

Desktop Computer - Know It Better ... The launch of this variety of computer encouraged scores of other companies to produce personal computers... In 1977, Tandy Corporation (Radio Shack) launched its model of personal computers having a keyboard and CRT...

How To Sell Used Computers ... Used computers are bought by either students who do not have good savings or earnings or they are bought by educational institutions like the schools and universities... These target segments however require used computers in a good working condition as well as for a lesser price... Selling used computers are a better option than throwing them as trash or keeping them in a corner occupying space and collecting dust...

Nanocomputer Design Ditches Clock ... Technology Research News says that "researchers from Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) in Japan have come up with a design for nanocomputers that would use less power, dissipate less heat, require less wiring, and be more reconfigurable than existing proposals." The design is a type of cellular automata, which are large arrays of simple, identical components, or cells. Each cell can be switched between two states that can represent the 1s and 0s of computing...

In Europe, you do philosophy by performing discourse on another guy’s text, and so Derrida will go over Heidegger, and Habermas will extend Marx’s corpus; but in America you could never get away with kinky stuff like that, for you have to generate philosophy from real things—like computers or television. You need to look at Omni magazine to get a feel for this new kind of mail-order, Popular Mechanics science of mind. It’s full of articles about meditation helmets and downloading the soul into computers so that when your body wears out you can live forever. What is completely missing in Europe is precisely what you will find in America: namely, an electronic Umwelt in which history is replaced with movies, education is replaced with entertainment, and nature is replaced with technology. This peculiar wedding of low kitsch and high tech generates a posthistoric world that no European literary intellectual can quite fathom.
—William Irwin Thompson (b. 1918)

Despite many assertions to the contrary, the brain is not “like a computer.” Yes, the brain has many electrical connections, just like a computer. But at each point in a computer only a binary decision can be made—yes or no, on or off, 0 or 1. Each point in the brain, each brain cell, contains all the genetic information necessary to reproduce the entire organism. A brain cell is not a switch. It has a memory; it can be subtle. Each brain cell is like a computer. The brain is like a hundred billion computers all connected together. It is impossible to understand because it is too complex. As Emerson Pugh wrote, “If the human brain was so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
—Jean M. Goodwin (b. 1946)