Word: smarter
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WILL CYBERSEX BE BETTER THAN REAL SEX? WILL SMELL-O-VISION REPLACE TELEVISION? WILL WE STILL DRIVE OUR CARS (OR WILL OUR CARS DRIVE US)? WHAT WILL OUR CARS LOOK LIKE? WILL I STILL BE ADDICTED TO VIDEO GAMES? WILL FRANKENFOOD FEED THE WORLD? WILL MY PC BE SMARTER THAN I AM? WILL WE PLUG CHIPS INTO OUR BRAINS? WILL ROBOTS RISE UP AND DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS? WILL EVERYTHING BE DIGITAL? WILL WE STILL TURN PAGES? WILL WE CLOSE THE BOOK ON BOOKS? WILL TINY ROBOTS BUILD DIAMONDS ONE ATOM AT A TIME? WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY? WHAT WILL REPLACE SILICON...
There may be a silver lining to all this. If Moore's law somehow continues unabated, then by some estimates our computers by 2050 will be calculating well beyond 500 trillion bytes per sec., at which point, as Ray Kurzweil suggests (see "Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am?"), they will be considerably smarter than we are. Evolution says organisms are replaced by species of superior adaptability. When our robots tire of taking orders, they may, if we're lucky, show more compassion to us than we've shown the species we have pushed into oblivion. Perhaps they will...
HOST The irrepressible inquisitor Regis Philbin SETTING Orwellian studio in Manhattan ELIMINATED CONTESTANT Jim Faggiana, who mistakenly identified violinist Midori as a cellist VIEWERS TUNED IN To see if they're smarter than the contestants...
HOST The officious "pronouncer" Dr. Alex Cameron SETTING Hotel ballroom in Washington ELIMINATED CONTESTANT Sean Conley, 12, who misspelled the word apotropaic VIEWERS TUNED IN To see if they're smarter than 12-year-olds
Perhaps Bush's advisers have discovered that it is good election-year politics to put some teeth in the "compassionate" part of conservative. But it is also the best way for Bush to demonstrate that he's smarter than some people think he is by showing that he's not as cocksure as he sometimes appears to be. By putting the brakes on the lethal-injection mill, if only in one instance, Bush shows he can take serious things seriously. Unlike in many other cases Bush has refused to reconsider, where the evidence is shakier, the evidence of guilt...