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What happens from here on out depends on the kind of technological advances that are always hard to predict. About the same time that Schrodinger unleashed his quantum cat, the British mathematician Alan Turing was sketching out the theory of the modern digital computer. A decade later, during World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purr of the Qubit | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

One of these is Goldfish and Palette, 1914. That Cubist-inspired trestle of black strokes on the right is Matisse, holding a white palette through which his phallic white thumb protrudes. But the real importance of this work and others from about this time lies in the sweeping "background" that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: When Henri Met Pablo | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Furthermore, there is scant evidence that the President is either messianic or a hard-edged religious determinist. Bush and I had several discussions about faith (and faith-based social programs) back when he was Governor of Texas, and he never displayed the vaguest hint of dogmatism or sense of destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blinding Glare of His Certainty | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Furthermore, there is scant evidence that the President is either messianic or a hard-edged religious determinist. Bush and I had several discussions about faith (and faith-based social programs) back when he was Governor of Texas, and he never displayed the vaguest hint of dogmatism or sense of destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blinding Glare of His Certainty | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

Between 1915 and 1917, he began to photograph an 18th century farmhouse in Bucks County, Pa., that he rented as a weekend retreat, as well as the old barns in the surrounding countryside. In a photograph like Doylestown House, Stairs from Below, in which the underside of a cellar stairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thoroughly Modern Man | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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