Don't forget Google as predicted in 1964 in a children's book.

I think you might have missed the point. The freedom-friendly ISP routes the connection across the near-defunct Telex network, and therefore bypasses censorship.

Of course, the websites you browse only display upper-case characters and EBCDIC Art graphics.

Making shade is the obvious solution. Anything from portable gazebos to improvised Berber tents to poles and shade-cloth. Shade is going to be more efficient than anything else at keeping people cooler.

If water can be spared, a fine mist of water in one part of the square would let people who have gotten too hot cool themselves down.

I thought the reduction in spam was just because some of the spammers are using their botnets to mine bitcoins instead.

Governments who embrace and legitimise Bitcoin will gain economic growth due to Bitcoin's speedy transactions, reliable settlement, and low transaction cost.

Governments will need to make some adjustments, for sure, but they needn't fear Bitcoin.

But how good will the new architecture be for processing Bitcoin blocks?

That's why some of AMD's current high-end GPUs are hard to find.

The amount and timing of each transaction is public. You can watch the transactions happening in realtime at the Bitcoin Monitor. But the transactions are listed against pseudonomys crypto keys. The system doesn't know your email address or nickname or anything like that.

There is no EULA. It's completely peer-to-peer. You don't register, you just run the open source client.

Yep. The first delivery is already booked for April 1st.

Bitcoins have rapidly increased in value. If you had been paid in bitcoins six months ago, they would be worth four times as much now.

To see the price chart, click on "All Time" at this URL: https://mtgox.com/trade/history