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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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The process is relatively painless. First you register your eBook on the Internet to get the user name and password you'll need to make purchases online. Then you browse the B&N website. When you select a book you want, it's encrypted and beamed to your desktop computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Book Report | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

In fact, I found I had more fun with my eBook when I wasn't reading books. A software upgrade released last week allows you to transfer text documents (e-mail, Microsoft Word files and the like) from your computer to your eBook and read them there. It also enables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Book Report | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

It's late 1998--long before the phrase Columbine school shooting enters your lexicon--and you're a researcher at a hate-group-monitoring center. Your job is to trawl the Web, surf literally thousands of "anarchy" links and make a note of the really nasty ones. One day you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Digital Dungeons | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

And yet there is no way of calculating how much of a role was played by propaganda and video games in Harris and Dylan Klebold's killing spree. Quake and its ilk may have helped desensitize a generation--but you're blasting cyborgs, not classmates, and you're certainly not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Digital Dungeons | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Not really. That sugary last sentence, conjuring a toy town in a glass paperweight, doesn't describe Northampton or, fortunately, Kidder's fond but unsentimental book. The author's great gift, in fact, is for looking at his subjects straight on. He did this impressively in The Soul of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Soul of a Small Town | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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