Word: analogizes
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...turned out, all that cusp-ness provided a useful foretaste of the 90s and early 00s, which have been in so many ways (technologically, economically, culturally) a time of extreme flux. At an impressionable age we became accustomed to being both one thing and its seeming opposite (analog and digital, bohemian and bourgeois, old and youngish), which was—I think—a good thing...
This may well be the future of entertainment. Fast two-way connections over PCs, TVs and mobile phones are converging, plunging us into a world where viewers become part of the programming. Once platforms switch from analog to digital technology, interactive applications like personalized programs, chat rooms, takeout food orders and online banking will become interactive options for your TV. The size of the potential market is immense: there are already 1.1 billion households worldwide with televisions. Today, about 34 million get digital TV; according to a report by Merrill Lynch, that number will jump to 221 million within four...
CLICK, DOCK Americans bought more than 5 million digital cameras last year, confirming their status as the gadgets du jour--like cell phones but less annoying. Unfortunately, digital cameras can still be tough on the analog-minded. That's where Kodak's new DX3500 ($379) comes in. The 2.2-megapixel digital camera has its own USB docking station; simply plug the dock into your PC, plug the camera into the dock, press a single button, and your snapshots show up on your desktop, ready for printing, uploading or e-mailing...
...deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses--the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. crowed to a communist officer, "We won every battle." Replied his analog: "That may be true, but it's irrelevant...
...Wendy Strothman. "Parody is protected. It's something different, because it is meant to ridicule the original. So it's in another class." She cites the naming of characters as part of the parody: "African Americans are often viewed in this country as 'the other,' so to call the analog to Scarlett 'Other' is funny. It's a twist on normal perceptions...