Door to the Extended Mind

"I would say 80% of the research charter of our own lab - a laboratory that is named research of the future ten or fifteen years on. This is not just academic peak - cofounder of NASA's Goddard Space Research Institute, Professor Robert Jastrow explains:"

"The whole idea - the idea of building a quasi-human brain was in the province of the universities and the theaters, but it had suddenly become vital because the Japanese were trying to gain control of the world's computing industry from the United States. And you must remember, that's a two hundred billion dollar a year business, or soon will be, within three years. And it makes it the biggest business in the world next to petroleum. Look at it from Japan's point of view: they have no natural resources to speak of, and and the information revolution needs natural resources. Bits cannot be depleted. They have an electronics infrastructure, they're competing very successfully with us in that sector, so they can rest on it and build the information revolution."

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