Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arguelles argued that his studies of ancient Mayan calendars showed that the "materialistic" world would end on Aug. 16 -- when three planets lined up with the new moon -- unless 144,000 true believers gathered in various "sacred sites" around the world and "resonated" sufficiently to bring on a new age of peace and harmony...
Through the New Age cults, which include devotees of Indian gurus, flying saucers, holistic medicine, tarot cards and you name it, the word spread: the sky is falling. Alternate version: let's have a party, potluck, and bring your own drums. A Palo Alto, Calif., outfit called Global Family set up a telephone network. And since this is August and there isn't much news, the press got out its own drums...
...General Motors, which still painstakingly builds scale models of new car designs out of clay. In the future, GM and other automakers may be able to use holograms to see what a car will look like before it is actually manufactured. Eventually, such images may be made by laser-age copying machines for a few dollars apiece...
...Must Remember This is about the less noisy desperation of the 1950s. For some it was the threshold of the affluent society. For the Stevick family of "Port Oriskany," an industrial city in western New York State, the decade is their introduction to the Age of Anxiety. The H-bomb, the Korean War and McCarthyism affect different Stevicks in different ways. Father Lyle, bookish owner of a secondhand furniture store, builds a bomb shelter in his backyard. Mother Hannah worries that this means they will never move from the sliding neighborhood, and Son Warren, wounded at Imjin, returns home...
...transform today's passive mass media, particularly TV, into flexible technologies that can respond to individual tastes. Because of advances in computers, says Nicholas Negroponte, 43, the co-founder and director, "all media are poised for redefinition. Our purpose is to enhance the quality of life in an electronic age...