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...recalls a time three centuries ago when a house consisted of one room centered on a fireplace for cooking and warmth. Then prosperity and technology combined to change things over the years. Central heating decentralized living, making separate bedrooms for individual family members more feasible. In the postwar housing boom, the classic three-bedroom ranch gave each component of the nuclear family a room (but what moron decided that one bathroom would suffice?). By the early '70s everyone was going his own way. Who needed a formal dining room when no one wanted to eat together anyway...
WILENSKY: We talk a lot about the baby boomers and the impact they're going to have on retirement spending, Medicare, Social Security, ad nauseam. What people don't always think about is that the baby boom was followed by the baby bust. So it's really a double whammy. Both of those are going to cause this continuing labor shortage and require employers to be unbelievably creative in keeping older workers...
...last century, which one brought a hope that empowered and inspired the poor with a life-changing insight that eventually transformed entire nations and cultures? The movement remains popular, growing by the thousands each day. It is not Communism, nor the golden arches of Capitalism, nor the technology boom. The movement is Pentecostalism, a spiritual movement largely ignored by Western academics who are still hoping religion will finally go away. This bias has left too many educated people ignorant of a ballooning world-wide social phenomenon...
Carr entered the technology boom early in 1987, when he co-founded telecommunications equipment manufacturer Boston Technology with an MIT engineer...
Only five information technology firms were present yesterday, whereas the forum attracted as many as 25 during the dot-com boom...