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The Soul of the Ultimate Machine – New York Times

2000-12-10

The Internet, he explained, is evolving into a single vast computer fashioned out of billions of interconnected processors. Then he went another step: ”The real question, from a software point of view, is: Will it become self-aware?”

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By John Markoff – December 10, 2000

The Silicon Valley crowd that assembled last week in a San Francisco airport hotel had come to hear about mobile electronic commerce, a most immediate concern for people who spend many of their waking hours thinking about whether their latest e-business solution will merit venture capital dollars.

They learned about something very different.

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