Word: boredomization
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...Super-Cannes (2000), are not exactly walks in the high-tech research park. Those two hot-selling thrillers were set in, respectively, a Spanish resort community and a leafy French office campus. In both, a clueless visitor tries to unravel a shocking crime, eventually discovering that the stress and boredom of these ostensible Edens have driven their denizens to violent excess. Ballard has seen the enemy and he is us, at our worst. As a slightly less pessimistic British writer, Martin Amis, has observed: "Ballard is quite unlike anyone else. Indeed, he seems to address a different - a disused - part...
Being a test subject requires sacrifices, including boredom (I once spent an hour staring at a computer monitor full of Ls to find a solitary T) and time that would otherwise be spent stalking the Facebook.com news feeds of my crushes. So why do I do it? For the satisfaction, silly—the satisfaction of knowing that I am a part of something larger than myself. Which really means that I’m in it for the money, just like all the other study subject whores who trek to the ninth floor of William James Hall...
...years, I interviewed 700 families across America, asking them what they'd had to deal with. Extremely few mentioned the kinds of problems diagnosed by Supermom lit. Rather, they had old-fashioned problems like infidelity, mental illness, teen drug use, poverty, racial prejudice, custody battles, emotional frigidity and marital boredom. Every family in America has had challenges to struggle through. But the kinds of problems people actually deal with are covered by few people besides Oprah and Dr. Phil - which helped explain why they're the cultural phenomena they...
...process can now go one of two ways: Either the planning committee can allow Behnisch the room to chart the future, or they can pull back in fear of disrupting the love affair. The latter option would yield only architectural boredom in Allston. It is crucial that the design process keep at the front of its mind the period when Cambridge was, in the words of ArchitectureBoston editor Elizabeth S. Padjen, “an architectural Camelot of high energy, idealism, and creativity...
...Cambridge University computer scientist Peter Robinson led a team of people, including colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that developed software enabling computers to read minds. A video camera focuses on 24 facial features from which the software can often decipher a person's mental state, including comprehension, boredom and excitement. Robinson says the program could be used to find the right moment to sell someone a product online...