Stifle creativity?? Give me a break. Yes thats right, programmers creativity should be stifled. What programmers don't understand is that no one is interested in their dumb ideas. Don't be creative, code jockeys, just do what you're told. But of course thats not enough for the massive egos of most programmers. They need to have something more important to do than just writing code they've been handsomely paid for. The fact that you think programmers need to be "creative" says a lot about your misunderstanding of software development. I would like to spend more time on this but I actually have real work to do, developing software like a professional, following a process. Grow up.

... he doesn't realize that books get written, sometimes for 4 or 5 or 6 years, BEFORE they get published. If he had access to wikipedia he would find out when Kurzweils books were written and when K. was thinking about the stuff K. was going to put in them.

Another thing about Rennie that's lame is that he just published the article like, the day after tomorrow in fact if you believe the date given in the article. Not content with presenting an article from the future that completely omits anything useful like lotto numbers or racing results, he goes on to completely, and when I say completely I mean UTTERLY ignore the present by being an ipod-nano denier!! Have you SEEN the screen on those things? And they have that cool thing that tells when you jiggle your hips, what's it called ... TOUCHSCREEN! Some people wear them as watches. Not me. I've got 85 of them taped to my body. Wanna see some pics?

Another thing that's lame about him is that he writes for the IEEE and he doesn't have close to 12 wireless devices on or around him. No I don't have 12 networked devices on or around me, I only have 4, but that's because I'm stuck out in my shed with a packet of cigarettes and a crappy wireless connection. If I was allowed in the house it would be closer to 10.

Look .. it's simple. If old Mr. SMARTY PANTS thinks he can do any better then why doesn't he go right ahead and show us all how it's done? Why? Because he doesn't want to. It's not difficult, but he's got better things to do with his time. Like slagging off Ray Kurzweil.


Ahem .... just wanted to say hello ... first time poster here, been read-only for a while. Thanks ... oh and peace too ... bye!