Now we have computers that can write stories on their own without human help. On Pentecost Sunday, we remember that the Holy Spirit came not to remove the human element, but empower it.
There's an old theory that proposes that if you left a hundred monkeys in front of a hundred PCs (or Macs, laptops) for a hundred years, eventually they'd manage to generate a Shakespearean sonnet. A newer theory adds that if you put a million monkeys in front of a million computers for a million years, you'd eventually get the Internet. Based on the amount of words and images uploaded every day into cyberspace -- much of which at least looks like it was generated by monkeys -- that theory seems about right.
Some new software may soon revolutionize the way we get information without the aid of monkeys or humans, for that matter. And it's quick and straight to the point. Take sports writing, for example. Within 60 seconds of the end of the third quarter at a Wisconsin versus the University of Nevada, Las Vegas football game last September, a news brief appeared: "Wisconsin appears to be in the driver's seat en route to a win, as it leads 51-10 after the third quarter. Wisconsin added to ...
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