>>Many of us believe that the Cell Phone is the big revolution in ICT
>>in Latin America. Now, is it about to catch up with, (or pass) the
>>notebook as computer of choice?
>
>Doesn't this beg the question "what is a computer?", or rather, to
>look at things a different way, has the process of evolution
>redefined "computer" to those functions which can be carried out
>with a cell phone?

Computer vision and evolution has one important talking here
http://research.microsoft.com/acm97/ when world experts celebrated
50 years of computation. Those interesting can look at and think on
Deirdre question
More: computer is, I said in an other mail, a basic tool inside the
"branch" (in economic and technical sense) and outside in all sectors
(economic and technical sense)
Thus you have computer everywhere! and this trend is an heavy one!
Computer is the most sophisticated machine ever created by human with
a kernel processor, memories, buses and so and it run with softwares
based on the always same simple ideas "if " "do" and so. Computer do
according to some design. Minsky (if I am not wrong) says it has
relation with social. But networks arrive, and computer was not
alone, it "connect" computers creating new worlds: digital worlds
extend to more abstracts and even analogs to our own mind! (see
Hyglithen).Network enable computers to "talk" between them because it
offers a protocol (or language to communicate between devices which
become sometimes very intricate)
But the essence is same: telephone network.
During the 60 we uses telephone for connecting data bases far from we
were. Today we use telephone for connecting servers via Internet or
other LAN, WAN or MAN networks. Today it is more and more cell phone
interface network. Inside with a powerful processor as computer is!
Computer is living inside cell phone and demonstrators are doing
videos to show How police is brutalizing people in the streets and
towns. Cell phone is our own brain, looking at, registering and even
analyzing (stats).
The long way for "Digital Veste" dreamed and presented by MediaLab is
arriving to a main station.
But whatever progress we are facing a thematic systems in which each
components is playing its roles and human an essential one.
  Some components as Cell Phone evolves faster and "semmes to drive
others" When the first photography was made nobody could imagine what
the future will be!
With Cell Phone with can imagine something like this: a more advanced
networks, more friendly, democratic, tools for advancing and for
"conserving" (in the sense of New Century For america) at once
That's an enormous challenge!
Victor
Nearby Wed Mar 22 10:33:22 2006