Excellent comments

We're back up, after a brief outage.

Also, a quick thanks for the outstanding comments and suggestions for alternate terms, arguments about whether there'll be another name for the warm blanket of connectivity and intelligence that will eventually surround us all, and claims that I'm just out of my mind. If I write a book on this, they'll all become useful primary material.

BUT... it goes to show that this is a subject that, in many disparate ways, lots of people have been thinking about, for some time. I had a sense of this already, but not of the extent of the phenomenon.

As Microsoft scientist Marc Smith puts it, if you're one in a million, there are 749 of you on the Internet, and you can find each other.

[To the tune of Dan Fogelberg, "Part Of The Plan," from the album "The Very Best Of Dan Fogelberg".]

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