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...course, the occasional "dark side" of technology peeks through the panegyric every now and then. But stories of Internet addiction and chat-room sexual misrepresentation tend to titillate rather than criticize. The advent of the Information Age is, in many ways, taken as an unqualified good for America and the world...
There are plenty of risks for investors in this brave new e-world. So-called boiler-room operators who tout highly speculative or fraudulent stocks in order to unload them at a profit--pump and dump in the parlance--can reach vast audiences through chat rooms and bulletin boards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has been flashing red lights, bringing--and winning--40 complaints alleging scams against stock promoters since 1996. (The rule here: if it sounds like too much of a good deal, it probably is. The agency has a cyberspace alert on its website: www.sec.gov...
...your livelihood depended on a talking gorilla, you'd stretch the data too. So when an America Online chat with Koko, billed as a gorilla who can communicate with humans through sign language, quickly devolved into a Dada exercise, Dr. Francine Patterson, Koko's sign-language teacher, used some pretty impressive logic to expand her simian friend's limited communication skills. Here's a partial transcript...
...highly ingenious teaching aids, only to be met with complete silence. We can almost hear them thinking, "just when is lunch?" It's as though the class as a whole is trying not to wake the baby. It seems such a shame to disturb the peace with idle chit-chat. At moments like these, we TFs think to ourselves, "I really should have gone into investment banking like Mom and Dad said. Perhaps from now on, I can just show them movies...
Family was always important to Mary; now hers seemed to be disintegrating. She had been a superteacher, hauling her own kids to her classroom after dinner so she could chat and play as she finished special projects. But after learning about her father's illness, she withdrew, declining to take on a student teacher and saying no to some Girl Scout duties...