Word: channelized
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...capture your favorites--49ers games, Happy Days reruns--whenever and wherever they're on, to watch on your own schedule. Or maybe your TV will tell you what to watch. Using the same sort of software Amazon uses to custom-recommend books, your TV will offer a "channel" for you and each family member. This could be disastrous for big networks: you may no more know, or care, whether your favorite show is on NBC or A&E than you know whether your favorite movie was made by Fox or Paramount. The nets could lose brand recognition...
...that medicine's reasons may at least serve to counter some disability, acquired or inherited. If I were to lose my eyes, I would quite eagerly submit to some sort of surgery that promised a video link to the optic nerves. (And once there, why not insist on full-channel cable and a Web browser?) The military's reasons for chip insertion would probably have something to do with what I suspect is the increasingly archaic job description of "fighter pilot," or with some other aspect of telepresent combat, in which weapons in the field are remotely controlled by distant...
...most profound changes afforded by the digital world is the ability to be asynchronous, in the smallest and largest time scales. In the smallest sense, this allows us to use efficiently our channels of communications; for example, interleaving people's conversations--packetizing them--so that many people share the same channel without being aware that they are. In the larger sense, we can expand, contract and shift our personal time in new ways, leaving and receiving messages at mutual convenience. On a yet larger scale, social behavior will also become more asynchronous, with all of us moving in much less...
Russert, who serves as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief for NBC News, also anchors his own program on CNBC about the role of media in American society and is a contributing anchor for NBC's other cable news channel, MSNBC...
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