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This was probably bound to happen now that the baby-boom generation running Hollywood has begun to turn the corner on 50 (in test screenings, Meet Joe Black is reported to have played particularly well to older men). The earnest side of my brain--the part that thinks Al Gore will make a darn fine President--even feels that these films should be applauded for trying to treat death as something sacred without asking us to watch some Oscar-trolling star die of a brain tumor. But if you're going to treat death as something more than an excuse...
...says Tom Miller of Cyber Dialogue, a technology market-research firm. That's not surprising, since e-commerce is expected to create a financial tidal wave of more than $300 billion early in the next century. The slight percentage of small-business online sales today--7%--suggests that a boom may be just over the horizon...
...lots of company. In the past few months, everybody from world-famous hospitals to cyberentrepreneurs has added an Ask-the-Expert feature to his health and medical home page. And judging by the crowd at Intel's Internet Health Day in San Francisco two weeks ago, the boom is just beginning. Flesh-and-blood doctors may cringe, but today's online health advisers are giving us a glimpse of the future of medicine...
...Although] we have a good handle on the baby-boom generation...if we develop pieces on a different culture through movies, music, books and politics, we can attract a younger audience as well...
...mean to naysay progress in an attempt to protect the "old ways." Nor am I certain that today's technology boom represents the end of some process by which we will all become cut off from one another. The changes technology demands in our time may be of no greater magnitude than at any other time...