
That Philip plans to revolutionize AI technology — in effect, achievingĀ singularity in a virtual world — isn’t that surprising, because he said as much when I talked with him forĀ The Making of Second Life:
“It’ll be possible for constructs that we build in Second Life and things like it in a simulated space to actually think,” he told me in 2007. “It’s only a decade away, the simulation engines.” I just didn’t imagine he’d essentially take the helm on that project himself.
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Palmisano noted one of the key points about Internet of Things early in his speech - it puts computational power into “things no one would recognize as computers.” Things like “cars, appliances, roadways and rail lines, power grids, clothes.” He also mentioned processes and global supply chains, non-sexy markets that have proven to be early commercial successes for the company in Internet of Things. Finally, Palmisano pointed to implementation in “natural systems, such as agriculture and waterways.”
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