Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failing to link the rise of the Information Age to the trend of corporate downsizing. He's missing the question of what happens to the social fabric in an age where once-valued workers become unnecessary, in which profitable corporations can use technology to achieve the same product with less human input...
These changes can't occur in a vacuum; public debate and scrutiny of the effects of technology are sorely missing in our rah-rah culture. It's not merely possible to question the Information Age without throwing the proverbial loom in the river--it's one of the civic responsibilities we bear in a sometimes brave, sometimes frightening, new world...
...lure middle-class travelers who are younger and more active but have less time to spend at sea than the retired blue bloods who once dominated the passenger lists. The big lines offer services including playrooms, golf courses and virtual-reality games. Such touches have lowered the average age of Royal Caribbean customers to the low 40s from the 60s and 70s not long...
...million. And for those who can't get enough Titanic, a U.S.-Swiss partnership plans to build a $500 million replica that will take its maiden voyage on the 90th anniversary of the Titanic's, in 2002. Two thousand passengers may enjoy the same kind of Gilded Age service as the original, and with enough lifeboats for everyone...
...night, hundreds of Chinese who don't own a PC crowd into Zeng's six Internet Cafes, where Net time retails for $3.60 an hour. It's fast food for the information age. Zeng, whose Unicom-Sparkice Information Network operates under a license from the government, says his customers are hungry for every byte. "Don't you see?" asks Charles Zhang, another Beijing Netrepreneur. "This is freedom...