I just got an email that said Amazon was cutting off Hawaii affiliates for the same reason. It seems like they are going to destroy their entire affiliate base. Maybe it's just not worth it any more.

I am on a WISP. It was my only option living in rural Hawaii and daily I pray for other options. The poor economy is keeping the telco from adding decent lines and I think the same is true for the cable company. I get up very early in the morning so I can have decent speed. But, as soon as people start waking up the this thing crawls to a halt. Some of it is bad network management, some of it is having the thing oversold. Either way, I pay monthly to maintain a dial up line which I switch to whenever the broadband gets slower than the dial up. And, I pay $75 a month. Yeah, I should be getting gigabit service for that. I read last year where Japan launched a satellite that would give everyone in Japan gigabit service. What happened to that? Why can't we have the same? Til then, reading this without the graphics!

I agree that in ten years this will be useless. I've read the comments so far and they all revolve around the idea that stem cells are THE answer. They are only one of the miracles happening now. It's true that even today, the cells stored in cord blood can be reprogrammed from other cells, making this technology worthless. But, nanotechnology is creating amazing medical advancements that will allow for in-situ gene repair. It won't be long before nanomachines can reprogram cells inside the body to revert to a pluripotential state. That could easily happen in ten years. There is a great video on FutureNewsNetwork that discusses some of these very issues.

There is an interesting article in today's LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-lehrer20jan20,0,1700536.story?coll=la-opinion-center that discusses reductionist learning. Both of these AI researchers believed that armed with all the facts that a way of using all the facts could be used to create intelligence. It is truly a backwards way of learning, a type of reverse engineering. But, IBM seems to think it has some merit as they are using the same idea to create the Blue Brain Project.