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MaggieL · 08-01-2002, 09:21 AM

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Meanwhile, that little video camera on your handheld can recognize any face it has studied in a couple of seconds. Your pocket computer will know who you're talking to, even if this is a face in crowd. It will know when you last spoke with that person; and almost anything else you care to know.

Big Jim Farley was a New York Tammany Hall politician whose success was partly due to the "Farleyfile": a collection of facts about everyone he ever met. If you went to see Big Jim, by the time you got into his office he knew your name, your birthday, the names of your spouse and children, and what you liked for lunch. It was all on file. Today's small computers can do that, plus recognizing the person so you don't need a secretary to do it for you.
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08-01-2002, 09:21 AM	#4
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	<blockquote> Meanwhile, that little video camera on your handheld can recognize any face it has studied in a couple of seconds. Your pocket computer will know who you're talking to, even if this is a face in crowd. It will know when you last spoke with that person; and almost anything else you care to know. Big Jim Farley was a New York Tammany Hall politician whose success was partly due to the "Farleyfile": a collection of facts about everyone he ever met. If you went to see Big Jim, by the time you got into his office he knew your name, your birthday, the names of your spouse and children, and what you liked for lunch. It was all on file. Today's small computers can do that, plus recognizing the person so you don't need a secretary to do it for you. </blockquote> http://www.jerrypournelle.com/report...originals.html __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."