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...Robert Kazutomo Hori's revolutionary idea--to charge subscription fees to cell-phone users for online content--helped hatch Japan's mobile-Internet industry. In Japan, 57 million connect to the Internet on their cell phones, more than in any other country. Cybird subscriptions have jumped 55%, to 7.3 million, in the past six months; the firm turned its first profit on sales of $60 million in the fiscal year through March...
When The Sims Online launches in December, the private dramas of the Sims will emerge on a much larger stage. Instead of Simming alone on their computers, players will connect to central servers over the Internet, where their Sims will coexist and interact in a shared three-dimensional virtual world. In The Sims Online, each player will control a character who lives with, talks to and works for other Sims, all of whom will be controlled by other players, all living together in simulated cities in a simulated country on the Internet. In effect, it's a vast virtual society...
...story does stray into that home-childhood-boring-boring territory. Lewis, we learn, craves attention because Daddy ignored him; Martin, so detached he can't connect with anyone, cats around on his wife. The movie doesn't trust us to intuit its insights into its subjects, so we have to hear flat-out from Martin, "My mother always told me, 'Never let anybody know who you are.'" At one point, Hayes is forced to say, "When Jerry Lewis loves, he loves too much, and when Jerry Lewis hates, he hates too much." When this script explains, it explains too much...
...there is no eye contact. The eyes are our magical trust building tool, they are the windows to our soul. Eye contact leads to trustworthiness, to reciprocity, to a feeling of “I belong here.” I wonder about the effect that this avoidance to connect has on the construction of a community of trust; I wonder if the excellent work that takes place in some of the classes is rendered ineffective on occasions where this disconnect occurs...
...Connection begins with an attitude. When one sees in people experiences, opportunities, beauty and life, one is open to meeting them, and often willing or eager to break the ice. When one sees threat in people, then all the circuits block. Along with the right attitude, comes some skill; communicating in a verbal and a non-verbal way our desire to connect is vital. The non-verbal cues that we give are responsible for opening the doors, and the eyes are the cavalry in that non-verbal battalion...