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To: Tim Murphy <info@cinox.demon.co.uk>
Hi Tim,
>Saw the article in the New Scientist and just have to share these thoughts with you.
>"Java is not under threat this week"; Mm well perhaps not but in a few weeks it could
>be...
Very pleased to get your Email. I was wondering myself if the idea could be
developed rapidly with help from other people on the Web.
>This webnuron thing is brilliant. If it was seriously adopted it could reduce the
>complexity and cost of computing by a least one order of magnitude.
You and me seem to be the only two so far to have really logged this. If applied from
the assembler I believe it could sweep all levels of computing and all applications.
You are possibly underestimating. I would guess at least two orders of magnitude. I
have already roughly figured out how webneurons can handle database applications. It
is also ideal for new AI things like understanding speech/vision.
>It reminds me of another brilliant idea - PADS.
I'll check this out.
>The point is tho that good ideas and schemes are never adopted for rational reasons
>but are adapted to different purposes, as in sgml/html or when some corrupt
oligarchy
>(the us military industrial complex) thinks a particular thing will serve it's
>interests (the internet), not realising that the academics had a different agenda
>(that of sharing knowledge, cooperation etc.).
Do you think that things can be better now, with the Internet established?
>Unless there is an unstoppable cheap mass market killer application no bright idea
>will survive. A good example is wave power - Because of the dependency on
research
>grants for development it was nobled by an assessment committee stuffed by
Thatcher's
>people with allies from the nuclear power industry who just cooked the guys figures,
>= wave power is 5x more expensive than nuclear. When the truth was that even on a
>conservative assessment it is the same or marginally cheaper.
That pisses me off.
>The killer application that unlocked the PC was the spreadsheet. From what I have
>read (and maybe understood) you seem to be pointing at Web Mail. OK, I see it, It
>sends a shiver down my spine! but it needs to happen fast.
I think a crude form of Web Mail can be achieved quite quickly with CGI. On each
webpage on our site we can have an Email icon that opens a mail message window to
"webpage filename"@brain.eu.org - When a punter clicks the icon, writes his message
and sends it, it is intercepted by a CGI script instead of the normal Email server. This
script can then
create a new webpage using our standard template and with the Email message
inserted between xmp and /xmp tags at the end of the page. A link will also be
put in from the original webpage to the new webpage. The punter will have edited our
website!
This is not ideal at all. real webneurons could do a whole lot more.
What do you think?
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