Microsoft and Netscape have both pledged to support XML in the next releases of their browsers. As Simon Phipps, chief Java evangelist at IBM, says: "XML is the next step in the sequence of technologies that started with TCP/IP, grew through Web...
Bob Brennan, CEO of Synapse Solutions, a Cambridge-based company which is developing machine intelligence technology, reckons natural language is inevitable in the evolution of technology. Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines, said...
Take this a step further - or rather a great many steps further - and the idea that human bodies will become part machine becomes popular, in some circles at least. In 50 years time there will be little distinction between the machine and the human...
The years 2000 and 2001 saw a number of spectacularly well-organised events across Europe that exhibited simple organic behaviour within human networks, epitomising the advantage of evolution over hierarchy.
The deluge of spam flooding email inboxes is changing the way we use emails and the way we interact via the medium, according to an analyst group that has explored the effect of spam on legitimate mailshots - such as email newsletters.
Rather than waiting for trial and error to show the route to even greater success or disruption, a combination of machine and human intelligence is being applied. But even more sophistication has quickly arrived in the worm, Trojan horse, spyware...