I don't understand your point. I pay my bank a bunch of fees for them to keep my money safe and available, otherwise I'd keep it under my matress. You mean that when they fail to provide me the service I pay for I should be punished for their mistake?

I completely agree but I one further advantage: forcing us to REMEMBER the lessons learned by having an ongoing need for the skills involved. We learned with the Apolo program how easy it is to forget skills and lose schematics...

Well, in Portugal's capital, Lisbon, quite a few buses offer WiFi for a fee.

Well, since that model of iPhone hasn't been released yet, how can you prove that it's over $950?

... 25 minutes of cellphone on the right ear?

Actually most of it was backed up http://www.geocities.ws/

Obligatory quote: "Don't anthropomorphize our gadgets, they hate that"

Although I can't name it, there was a movie in the 80's about a building that recycled human body heat for energy... until the computer went awry and started killing everyone for their body heat.

Well, given that I posted this from work (IT consulting, nothing to do with Google or ads), I could say I have been paid to write this. Only that I own the company, so I kinda paid myself ;)

I will probably be modded down as troll, but not only I don't mind at all having ads in my Gmail account (after all, I am getting a "free" service, it is only fair they get something in return) but in a number of occasions I've actually found them useful, suggesting me relevant products that I didn't know about.

I am not a neurosomething, but what we've been seeing seems to indicate differently. The brain is hugely adaptable on it's own to new input sources, as we have been shown by the hability do adapt do hearing and sight replacement devices. The systems we have for reading thoughts are nowhere nearly as adaptable to our individual differences.

A shame that a professional who is protected under the freedom of speech cloak disrespects it with such behaviour. Well, guess you can all use you right telling him so at kgreenbaum@post-dispatch.com

Although I agree that for some jobs that is a clever alternative and the almost eventual future, there will always be a lot of jobs that require the warm body around (medical, teaching and the likes). So yes, we should invest in reducing the need to commute but also in making the process as efficient as possible when we don't have a alternative.

If you haven't noticed, Google is making a huge effort to replace everything you should want on a computer with a Javascript webapp. Believe me, in time, Javascript raw speed will be pivotal to their hability to sell online services.