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...minute harangue in the House of Commons. As a stony-faced Prime Minister John Major listened, Lamont charged that without more clearly defined goals, his party's government "will not survive and will not deserve to survive." The last time an ex-Exchequer Chancellor (Geoffrey Howe) attacked the boss (Margaret Thatcher), the government did indeed fall...
...electronically. The system -- based on Microsoft's wildly successful Windows software -- could lead to a new wave of advanced office machines that would, for example, allow someone to write a memo and instantly send it to the computer screens of his staff members, the photocopier down the hall, his boss's printer, and the fax machines and computers of his division managers around the world...
...bring on David Richmond Gergen as his top spokesman, with the title of Counsellor to the President. While Gergen, 51, is regarded in Republican circles as an expert communicator and strategist, he is also known to be disorganized, undisciplined and often tardy -- characteristics he shares with his new boss. "If they are looking for a good analyst," said a Reagan White House veteran, "they have found one. But this is not someone who can make the trains run on time...
David Gergen: Sharing the boss's habits...
Which is, in the end, the only compelling case against the new gadgetry. When it was just a matter of spending too much time watching CNN and Who's the Boss? reruns, American couch-potato-ism was more amusing than depressing. But if the last remaining rich, secular public rituals -- shopping, moviegoing, browsing in the company of human strangers -- become reduced to solitary, freeze-dried experiences, we will have impoverished ourselves. The future, as it happens, will feel futuristic after all. But at least the Jetsons occasionally went out and mingled...