> Yes, indeed... there was something on the Intel web site not too long ago (right after the introduction of the AnyPoint home networking stuff, I believe) about that sort of thing.
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That might be it. It was in one of those free weekly mags sent out to web professionals, and I think most of those mags are duplicated on the company's web site.

> Oh, my. There would be enough privacy issues to make me want to go live on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean... and don't be surprised if I do if it comes up.
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I may just join you.

> But, on top of that, am I the only one who doesn't find the concept of linking *everything* together through the Internet at all appealing? I think there comes a point where technology becomes too invasive... and it comes way, way before you lose that sixth point of essence. Perhaps even before you lose the first.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "sixth point of essence"? What is that?

> I am an extremely low-tech person (I say posting this on my computer to an internet message forum). If there is a lower-tech alternative, I'll take it. After they computerized the card catalogue in my high school (back when I was *in* high school), I was the only person who continued to use the old card catalogue. That sort of thing.
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> To have everything connected through the internet may be a dream for some, but it would be a black nightmare for me, and not just because of Orwellian possibilities. That would mark the final point in our culture where we become inseparably linked with our devices... what would we do if the power went out? Lives would stop. People will grow too dependent on this new technology, and will be unable to function without it... sounds almost like a Vonnegut story, while we're on the subject of authors.
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I consider myself semi-high-tech, Yet I see your point. People lose their self-sufficiency. People have already lost a lot of self-sufficiency. If I didn't have to learn how to boil a hot dog when I was a kid, I'm sure I'd only eat hot food when a microwave was available now, that is how uninterested in stoves I am.

> I do have more to say about this, but I'm not doing well at thinking coherently right now. Gimme a break - I'm sick.
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Break granted-- feel better.

Tyler