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...verdict in the case in about six weeks, seemed intent on letting Microsoft know that if it locks horns with the feds, it won't walk away unscathed. The judge is mulling three possible punishments: requiring Microsoft to divulge design secrets of its operating system; forcing it to alter its business practices; and breaking it up into three "Baby Bills...
...better or worse, the suburbs are what America came up with when presented with the chance to manufacture its ideal geography. Come 2025, people will still live in houses within eyeball distance of their neighbors, but the cyberrevolution and the environmental movement promise to alter the landscape. While computers promote a dramatic trend toward decentralization, allowing people to spread out and live or work anywhere, the green consciousness will urge a contrasting densification, to conserve open space. The reconciliation of these opposing trends will define the suburb of the future. As the vastness of cyberspace increasingly satisfies the craving...
Sensory experience. We live in our bodies. Our heart beats faster when we are scared; our eyes tear when we are emotionally touched; and we howl, hoot, whistle and clap when turned on. No amount of technological development will alter our basic instincts. Watch a film in a large theater, and the experience will be doubly charged, not by the size of the screen but by the energy of the audience. Coliseums, football stadiums, rock concerts--to be a part of the action, as opposed to just being a voyeur, is as old as the ritual of performance. Yet bigger...
Breeding New Comedians While there has been much ballyhoo in the past decade over progress in cinematic special effects with computer-generated imagery (CGI), no one has been talking, at least publicly, about the incredible breakthroughs in the relatively nascent field of comedic gene engineering (CGE). Manipulating genes to alter the makeup of a human's looks and personality has been in the realm of possibility for years. But the prospect of doing it for comedic effect is just starting to take shape. Scientists are working to isolate the specific genetic code responsible for what makes us laugh--the "funny...
...speed dials of swarms of dateless, pre-pubescent jetsetters before Howie even purchased a cowboy hat. A veteran in the modeling industry, Brian's spotlight shined bright when he appeared eight years ago on the board game Dream Phone. The middle-schoolers cooed over Brian's alter-identity Scott, the attractive basketball player whose skills on the court courted many...