What is micropricing?
How does the risk of using a credit card over the Net compare
with the risk of using a
credit card in a store?
Which aspects of the economy have been fastest to move significantly
in an e-commerce direction?
How do most search engine companies make their money, today?
What effect is the advent of e-commerce expected to have on the
economy as a whole?
What aspects of the finance industry make it a particularly
appropriate testing ground
for concepts in Internet AI?
Does chaotic dynamics occur in ordinary (pre-Internet) economic systems?
What does "the network is the computer" mean?
Why has Microsoft generally not liked "the network is the computer"
as a direction for development
in the computer industry?
In a standard (von Neumann) computer, like a PC or Mac or Unix
workstation, memory and
processing are separate functions.
In the brain, the two are
inextricably entwined.
What are the plusses and
minuses of each arrangement?
Why have most companies manufacturing supercomputers run into
financial trouble over the
last decade?
What is the concept of the "global brain" (as developed for example
by Peter Russell), and how
does it differ from the concept
of Internet intelligence?
What are some of the archetypal structures that Ben Goertzel believes
must emerge from the Internet
in order for it to become
truly intelligent?
What are the dangers of too much hierarchy in a system? What are
the
dangers of too little hierarchy
and too much heterarchy?
What is symbiosis? What would it mean for the human race and the
intelligent Internet to
become symbiotic?
What are some of the main differences between the brain and the
conventional computer, as
information processing devices?
What is "data mining"?
What is "knowledge management"?
What is the Java Virtual Machine?
What are some of the pros and cons of the Java programming language?