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72 Views of the Tower of Babel
posted on May 15, 2008 - View this thread

You whisper "Je t'aime", the machine says "I love you". Carnegie Mellon offer the prospect of a real-time automatic face-mounted translation device.
posted on Oct 27, 2006 - View this thread

Sorry, I don't have a link for this post, but in light of the tragedy, I was thinking of the Tower of Bable story from the Bible. As I understand the story, man was trying to build a tower to reach God, but God made sure man didn't succeed.

For those of you who do (or don't) believe in God, do you think there is a message in all this sadness?
posted on Sep 15, 2001 - View this thread

The Library Of Babel, by Borges. Quite good, I think.
posted on May 15, 2000 - View this thread