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...easily zap ads, traditional commercials will become less and less profitable. This means you'll have to pay for TV with either money or information. Pay-per-view--for movies and sports--will become more common, as will subscriptions. (Blockbuster has already made a deal with TiVo to beam movies to set-top boxes.) When your TV becomes a massive video archive, you'll even pay for reruns...
...QUANTUM COMPUTER The darkest horse to emerge in this race is the quantum computer, sometimes dubbed the ultimate computer. The idea is to direct a laser or radio beam on a carefully arranged collection of atomic nuclei, each of which is spinning like a top. As the beam bounces off the atoms, it flips the spins of some of them. Complex computations can be performed by analyzing how the spins have been flipped...
...past albums, O'Connor's songs burned with anger. Her new album, for which she recruited a wide range of producers, including hip-hopper Wyclef Jean, radiates forgiveness, and the music is often as sweet and smooth as strawberries and cream. A few tracks, including The Healing Room, beam with sunny reggae rhythms. The album is dedicated to "all Rastafari people." In one song, What Doesn't Belong to Me, O'Connor sings from the perspective of God, rejecting the self-segregation in the world: "I'm Irish, I'm English, I'm Muslim, I'm Jewish/I'm a girl...
...speed of 186,000 m.p.s. According to the special theory of relativity, that's verboten; the velocity of light is supposed to be the cosmic speed limit, which nothing can exceed. Nevertheless, a physicist, Lijun Wang of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., says he revved up a beam of light as much as 300 times its normal speed, using a special chamber filled with cesium gas. Now let's see him prove...
...some 300 miles before reaching Tel Aviv, whereas Hezbollah is able to deploy its Katyushas close to the border. "This system won't have much advanced warning, which makes its task that much more challenging. Then again, it has the advantage of speed, attacking its target with a sustained beam that travels at the speed of light rather than trying to hit a bullet with another bullet." Although the U.S. says it has no plan to field laser weapons of its own, if THEL proves successful in testing for attack by multiple rockets, the temptation will certainly grow. While Ronald...