"Pattern recognition" is a frequent A.I. refrain, but computers can't learn to spot patterns they've never seen.

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By contrast, Apple allows up to five computers to access protected content, so I activate and de-activate the machines I want to use and if for some reason a machine crashes and takes an activation with it, I can de-activate all my computers and get my licenses back.

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Maybe I'd like a billion for three seconds, or 10 billion, just the way I might need a million computers in the cloud for two seconds and can access them through Google.

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By that I mean they can't find how these mobile devices are improving worker productivity, which computers have been doing quite ruthlessly for the last 70 years.

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And 5 years from now when a significant percentage of the Chinese population can afford a personal computer, I have a hunch that it will be Chinese computers, rather than imported American computers, that will be their computer of choice.

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