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   Subject: Re: Those Amazing Computers!   
      
   On May 8, 2:22apm, Ron  wrote:   
   > I was watching The Conscience of the King today and noticed just how   
   > special the Enterprise computer really is: Spock asks the wrong   
   > question, but gets the correct answer anyway.   
   >   
   > Spock asks the computer what Leighton, Reilly, Kirk, and Karidian all   
   > have in common (which is nothing for one of them) but the computer   
   > gives Spock the answer he was looking for even though Karidian's life   
   > began *after* the executions on Tarsus IV. That's amazing! With my   
   > computer, if I put in the wrong questions and information, I get out   
   > wrong information. a;-)   
   According to "The Singularity is Near", computers of the not too   
   distant future will be able to anticipate what someone is thinking and   
   act according. Google more or less does a version of this already,   
   auto-completing your searches for you, or giving you an alternate   
   search if you misspell a word. It's not special at all that the   
   Enterprise computer knew what Kirk meant when he said Karidian instead   
   of Kodos. It's to be expected.   
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