Computers don't have emotions and emotional experiences - emotions are more powerful than any facts, figures, logic...etc Plus I don't think your last comment is quite true - I'm no biologist - but isn't the human brain far more superior than any computer...if only it came with an instruction manual! : )

Why are B movies interesting? Is it because they don't have the bling - bling of the mainstream film makers. Is it always really worth filling in all those questions in the form online? I only want product or service. Would it be intrusive to tell the consumer that by using a site and service that we will gather information about you. So don't have a cow about it. Hold on - that feels better, they told me up front and didn't surprise me with it just before I joined. If i had a million facts stored in my clever little mind, would that education or common sense? Maybe if all services and products were put across as common sense (like turning on the light bulb when walking into a dark room), maybe I would care less about filling in a few extra form fields online. And that B rate movie is soo cheesey - that i actually like it. Or maybe I'm not being so anal about everything. The day a computer tells me that it loves me, I think I'll pull the plug out! And if we can only do with a computer what we do with ourselves, then maybe we should do better things with ourselves and the tin can machine will follow suit.

Who should we be more suspicious of? Google, who may or may not be sharing information with others. Who may or may not be somewhere behind closed doors plotting the ultimate plan of world dominance. Or do we concern ourselves about the people we can not see. A piece of advice was given tome along time ago, it rings as true in the computer world then it did when I received it. If you don't want anyone to know what you do then don't tell anyone. It is easy to sit and think of the complexities of others and what they do with your information. Look at it this way, we all at times think that others a paying a lot of attention to us, the truth of the matter is that people are probably not thinking about you as much as you think they are. We all know that we are important to ourselves, therefore if big brother is watching me I say thanks for noticing and hope to hear from you soon

Google = a very, very large bucket of bits, being filled daily, with algorithms that discover context, make associations and predict behaviour. Can it do everything? Far from it. What it can do involves impressive use of large volumes of linkable data. However, the shortcoming and gaps are regions of "solution space" which are many orders of magnitude larger. Cool for search, but for understanding human social behaviour, (and comsumption) it's a bit like being able to pick single quotations from a very large important book. The full story IS the whole book. No surprise that deal closures are relatively rare by this route. Can the gap be closed? Well, that depends on how big the book really is, and we don't know that. Tom.

At the end of the day it is the spontaneity of teh human experience that makes the key difference -- we can store the facts but it is our randomness thta is life...

Time will always be relative. It's too fast for those who are late. Too slow for those who wait. Too short for those who enjoy. Too long for those who grieve. Too swift for those who fear. Too painful for those who suffer. But time spent with your love ones...that's eternity!

there is a season....

It's the built in biological clock, if there is such a thing. Time, like your body, changes into seconds, minutes, hours and the days become moments and moment become memories. Is there a moment in time that we have forgotten? Of course there is but we can't remember it. If we think for one second, there is a flood of moments that fill,what you may call, "The time of your life" Take off the watch, thats what clocks, boarding calls and other announcement are for. Do what the body intends, live every moment and don't look down