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...other leading scenario is to slice Microsoft into several "Baby Bills": mirror-image companies that all have equal rights to Windows. An advantage to this approach is that it would create real competition in the operating-system market. Since the Baby Bills would be fighting for market share, each would have a strong incentive to improve Windows--to offer it more cheaply, to make it more crash resistant...
Microsoft's success in its consumer-electronics adventures should ultimately ride on connectivity: the extent to which all these Windows-seeded devices are able to talk to each other and share data. Imagine the timesaving advantages in this technologically fragmented world if you're able to beam a number from your Pocket PC to your Windows cell phone, or use the synchronicity between your satellite dish and your X-box to play games over a broadband network. "Their Windows-ness could turn out to be a benefit," says Mundie. In other words, if Gates has his way, Microsofties...
Both Celera and the Human Genome Project will go after new genomes--among them that of the mouse. (Tellingly, the government researchers are expected to adopt Venter's technique for this task.) Reason: not only are mice useful to test potential treatments, but also--because they share many of our genes--they offer an alternative route to understanding how genes work and how they can cause disease...
Axelrod found that players are most apt to gravitate to this system when they are likely to encounter the other players again. Without this "shadow of the future," there is every incentive to cheat--to drink but not share blood or, in the case of the stock market, to dump your shares at the first sign of a panic. So the larger and more anonymous the situation, the greater the incentive to be selfish...
Congratulations on the article about how the Internet will make you a star [EVERYONE'S A STAR.COM, March 27]! Providing any computer user with the chance to share his work and self-expression with the world, the do-it-yourself.com trend has come not only to stay but also to be a turning point. It will revolutionize the concept of creativity as simple and somewhat bizarre ideas will be raw materials for important creations. LUIZ CARVALHO Deerfield Beach...