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From: johnm@well.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Earliest?  Who cares
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 01:38:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 01:38:13 1987
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Keywords: Media, the god of the future


OK, here's a cyberpunk application to consider. I was
at the Artificial Life conference in Los Alamos a couple
weeks ago and a computer scientist at a government lab 
described a neural net application for speaker recognition.
The application? To be able to browse through thousands of
phone conversations scoop up by ELINT vacuum cleaners (ferret
satellites) and findindividual by matching his or her voice.
A lovely technology -- of course its totally illegal in the
U.S.....