ny tasks, the spread and evolution of the Internet, and the increasing ease of global communication, the line between computer and human will grow vague and blurred. To one without significant computer experience, artificial intelligence will seem to be already extant. Humans have created magic countless times throughout history, and wit-bin a few years each new development is taken for granted. The gradual emergence of artificial intelligence will come as no surprise to the general public, and scientists will continue to speculate about the lack of development even as their computers are widely intelligent by the standards of ten years earlier. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Bibliography"AltaVista Translation Services." Internet: *http:babelfish.altavista.com*. Accessed 2 May 1999. Software developed by AltaVista and Systran. Artificial Intelligence. Time-Life Books: Alexandria, Virginia, 1986. Benedict, Michael, ed. Cyberspace: First Steps. The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1991. Dreyfus,Hubert. What Computers Still Can't Do. The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1993. Freedman, David. Brain-makers. Simon & Schuster: New York. 1994. Forsyth, Richard, and Chris Naylor. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Artificial Intelligence. Chapman and Hall / Methuen: London. 1985. Haugeland, David. Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea. The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1985. Hogan, James. Mind Matters. The Ballantine Publishing Group: New York, 1997. Johnson, George. Machinery of the Mind. Times Books: New York. 1986 Kurzweil Raymond. The Age of Intelligent Machines. The MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1990 Penrose, Roger. The Emporer’s New Mind. Oxford University Press: Oxford, England. 1989. Reitman, Edward. Creating Artificial Life: Self-Organization. Windcrest / McGraw-Hill: New York. 1993. ...
