Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Calvinism 2.0
Now here's a sentence that should make the blood run cold: “At Microsoft, researchers are working on the idea of ‘predestination.’ " (New York Times online, July 18, 2006) 
Turns out that by “predestination” the folks in Redmond mean something a little less cosmic than Calvin did – at least in the first release: "They envision a software program that guesses where you are traveling based on previous trips, and then offers information that might be useful based on where the software thinks you are going.”
Still, it suggests a good working definition of hell: all eternity spent with that grinning idiot paperclip guy offering to help you go to the post office.
Turns out that by “predestination” the folks in Redmond mean something a little less cosmic than Calvin did – at least in the first release: "They envision a software program that guesses where you are traveling based on previous trips, and then offers information that might be useful based on where the software thinks you are going.”
Still, it suggests a good working definition of hell: all eternity spent with that grinning idiot paperclip guy offering to help you go to the post office.
