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Remember when the biggest fear of the recording music industry was the CD copier? The image of some teenager in Akron duping Britney Spears albums for all his friends had executives tossing in bed, teeth ground to nubbins. And now that those copiers are here it hardly matters. As MP3s and their ilk spell the end of music merchandising as we know it and the recording industry scrambles to find a new business model, that Akron teen is the least of their worries. The days of the CD are, after all, limited. But while record execs gnash their teeth over...
...office for a major manufacturing company. There is no "campus" a la Microsoft or Nike, no sculptured lawns or basketball courts. We enter the building and make our way through a sea of cubicles (c. 1970). The atmosphere is that of a conventional office; everyone is working hard, the copier hums in the background and commemorative plaques and employee motivation posters decorate the hallways...
...that $5 million in venture capital. But where do you get health insurance for employees? Where do you get a copier for the office? Heck, where do you get an office...
...sign over the office copier is the kind of Dilbertesque humor one might see anywhere in cubicle land. But in a warren of basement rooms under Princeton University's engineering quad, the meaning is more, well, meaningful. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory, after all, explores how the human mind affects machines. Anomalies is the key word: something different, abnormal, peculiar or not easily classified. In this case, they are the elusive powers of consciousness. Can the emanations of the brain really make the copier malfunction? Or maybe turn on the lights or even cause airplanes to fall from...
...used to spot a temp a mile away. He would show up at the office for a day, asking too many questions, trying to remember the firm's name when answering the phone, unable to find the coffeepot or get the copier to work...