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...short, you survived however you could, and that need tended to drive out noble sentiments. This is a theme another writer, Paul Fussell, takes up even more brutally in his essay "Thank God for the Atom Bomb." His argument is simple: better them than us--them being the Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, us being the American troops (Fussell among them) poised to invade the Japanese home islands in 1945. Citing ex-Marine E.B. Sledge's eyewitness account of Pacific combat, Fussell writes of Marines "sliding under fire down a shell-pocked ridge, slimy with mud and liquid dysentery...
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...Richard DeVaul scoff at the notion of wearables as a consumer product. "Why would you want to surf the Net or play a computer game while you walk around?" asks Schwartz, a genial 46-year-old who wears his skepticism lightly. "How would you survive crossing the street?" His argument against the MA-IV is that it simply takes a laptop computer and distributes its components around the body. The machine doesn't do anything that a laptop can't. He adds: "There are no compelling applications for wearable computers...
DeVaul, 29, takes the argument further. A wearable computer, he says, is as different from a PC as a PC is from a mainframe. For wearables to work, they would have to perform special functions related to mobility. "A wearable has to be aware of where you are, what you're doing - and give you information accordingly." So, if you're passing a grocery store, your computer should be able to remind you that there is no milk at home and it may be a good idea to step in and buy a carton. A wearable can only work when...
...where their human drivers tell them unless there is a smart-car-sponsored event nearby or unless there is a rock concert or ball game that the smart car (by accessing the owner's adaptive profile) knows the owner really wants to go to. In any case, the argument cannot last more than five minutes, tops...