for those interested in communication

Check out this link: Forbes.com report on Communicating. It includes very interesting articles which attempt to answer very interesting questions such as 'can chimps talk?', 'how to talk to aliens?' and 'why we have language?' plus an intervew with Chomsky and lots of other things.

On the side, you will also notice 3 'intriguing' vote polls. They are asking:

1. With whom would you most like to have a conversation?
2. What's the most annoying modern communication tool?
3. If you could send a message through time and have it delivered to yourself at the age of 18, what would it be?

I don't think the choices in the first one were good, and I thought the one most voted to would be more secular than "God"?! Do you think those who voted for God are either 'very religious' people or 'very doubtful' people? Maybe. Anyway, it has to be a strange world we are livng in where there are more people who want to talk to G.W. Bush than to Shakespeare.

Reading the choices for the second one, I was annoyed to see blogs among them, then I was more annoyed to see blackberries there because I never used one so can't tell if it's annoying or not, and finally I was amused to see the last option "annoying?"

The last one is really funny. As soon as I read "it's true, you never will need algebra again", I thought that's the one. But it was obvious which will get the most votes. Do you ever have this nightmare where Google is controlling the world and you can only gtalk and gmail and gwalk and gdrive and geat and gdrink and gthink and gdream and.. then suddenly wake up screaming gNOOOOOOOOOO? me neither!

Mai