...network
The Internet is currently growing at a rate of some 20 per month.
...activity.
In a broad sense, that might be related to the important function of dreaming in biological brains.
...approach
Most of those features are very familiar today in the implementation of the Mosaic interface to WWW and tools for creating html files.
...soon
The current (beginning 1994) growth rate of Internet users is much higher than the global population growth rate -- 90 for Internet versus 1.7 for population. This difference in rates is so great that with a simple linear extrapolation, each human would also be an Internet user by the year 2001 [23].
...WAIS
The data are available at gopher://nic.merit.edu:7043/11/nsfnet/statistics
...1994)
To our knowledge, Larry Smarr, NCSA, was the first to suggest that this might be a signature for a non-equilibrium phase transition [47]
...page
URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html
...[#BrownConf##1#]
URL: http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/People/gmk/Papers/HungerConf/HungerConf.html
...work
See for example the WWW page of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (http://netspace.org/hungerweb/SADC/)
...Brains.
Peter Danielson was the first one who pointed this possibility out to us.
...restrictions.
In the US similar concepts are discussed for example the present Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).
...when?
Important especially in Eastern Europe or in cases of chemical spills.
...organized
There are already many computerized book-keeping and activity report systems on the market, some are specifically developed for agricultural applications.
...list
If personal preferences are encoded in the credit-card number this system could substitute time-consuming and uninteresting checklists in restaurants and sandwich-bars about salad dressings and other trivial meal preferences.
...image
In the simplest case and in a controlled environment this could be a ball of a fluorescent color attached to a bite-plate [45] that the whale can move around.
...whale
see e.g. [18] and http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/People/gmk/Projects/Orcas-SW/
...interface.
Because of the purely visual interface no mechanical contact or exposure to corroding seawater would be necessary.

Gottfried Mayer-Kress
Sat Apr 22 21:04:59 MDT 1995