Responding to msg by mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos) on Wed, 21 Feb 9:3 PM

Those wishing to read IBM's explanation of this new technology may browse their Web page on Quantum Teleportation at...

http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/

Thanks much for your precis and the IBM pointer. IBM's ad seems inspired by Clarke's "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The teleportation site hiply introduces the topic with its science fiction ancestry. The site even has a link to the "goulash" featured in the ad, so the tease is PR for IBM's magical research explorations. It was illuminating to read the tie of teleportation to quantum research -- cryptograpy, communication and who knows what else burbling in that wizard Watson lab. Because my Lynx could not get into IBM's "quantum cryptography," perhaps Blue is onto some Lotus-like Q-Crypto soon to be teased in ads for cosmos-wide Net security or surveillance-proof chips and goulash.