"However, there are two Web Radio sources: one in Switzerland, and the second in Singapore, with news reports on marketing technology". "Cool", you respond. "Read me the Swiss report first".
You drive calmly listening to the sweet female voice coming from your computer, with your favored music in the background. No mayhem news from the streets of New York. No more old radio noise or missed words when you pass underneath the highways. And you are not anymore a slave of some mean radio station. It is YOU who decides how to think (what a relief).
The above scenario will not happen in the year 2020, as you might think. It may happen two years from now. We already can communicate with a computer with our own voice. And already we can have a simple conversation with some. You can chat anytime with Eliza, and "she" (or "it") resides on the Web, where one can find other similar artificial intelligence programs.
The truth is that technology is moving so unprecedently quickly, that would be necessary for sites like this one to keep pace with change. From 1950 until now the computer power has increased by a factor of ten billion. This would give you an image of what Moore's Law is about to throw us into. Unfortunately our brains think linearly, not exponentially, and we refuse somehow to believe what is going to happen next.
Even a visionary like Bill Gates refused to believe until 1995 that the Web would become the telecommunication nerve of the future. When he realized, he asked his bewildered programers to stop what they were doing, and work instead on Web-based projects, turning his giant corporation 180 degrees.
As Ron Bernal (president of MIPS Technologies) stated, one microchip may end up costing 10 cents by the year 2000, 4 cents in 2005, and 2 cents in 2010. Others estimate it at 50 cents around the year 2000, 7 cents in 2005, and 1 cent in 2010. The bandwidth of communications will follow the same Moore's Law, allowing exponential increases in the amount of data (images, text, voice) to flow through networks.
