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Last month Motorola and Cisco Systems said they would jointly ante up $1 billion over four years to create wireless, high-speed Internet networks. AT&T and others are experimenting with cellular-like services that compress data and bring high-speed Web access into homes. That could help some rural areas. But while wireless towers can easily cover vast stretches of the plains, it's a far costlier matter to erect enough towers to throw signals around the Rocky Mountains. Moreover, many of the companies that are talking up wireless have densely packed urban businesses and mobile professionals in their...
...When you compress something down to the works of one playwright, you need a much broader chronological context, but in the specific era it is very thematic," says James T.L. Grimmelmann '99, a computer science concentrator who is taking the class as an elective...
Imagine if Ted Kaczynski were younger, hipper and had a brilliantly witty sense of humor. Imagine that instead of writing a lengthy manifesto on the ills of modern society, he chose instead to compress his belief system into simple, easy-to-swallow sound bites for mass consumption: "The future is fake" "Everybody's lying." "Stop breathing." "Progress is over." Rather than spreading his doctrine with letter bombs and threats of destruction, he might instead have devised a quirky, culture-savvy, pink-jacketed novel about the end of the world. He might very well have penned something like Douglas Coupland...
...home again, ever. The universe, which has been expanding at a constant rate since its inception with the "Big Bang," is not ultimately headed for collapse. It will expand forever. Scientists now say that the "Big Crunch" theory, which holds that the universe will finally compress itself into a tiny ball of unimaginable density, appears to have been flawed all along...
...from Andy Warhol. The paintings--like Estate, 1963--that won him the grand prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale, with their high, bright color and rapid shuttle of images, conveyed an extraordinary impression of the electronic image glut that comes from TV. Through silk screen, Rauschenberg could now compress fragments of events as well as things into his work, giving it a heightened, broken-up documentary flavor--history painting for channel surfers...