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...called the e-market; it's coming soon to an industrial-era sector near you, and Ma may turn out to be its avatar. "Moses' intellect operates on a plane well above mere mortals'," says Joel Friedman, a managing partner at Andersen Consulting, which last month agreed to develop and sell e-market software and services with BizBots. "And we think he might have built a better mousetrap...
...work. Warner Bros. owns the rights to AI, a science-fiction flick Kubrick wanted to do about artificial intelligence. Warner co-chief TERRY SEMEL says there is a script and even storyboards completed for the movie. Normally, Kubrick never did storyboards--he preferred to let movies develop over a long period--but he had to do them for AI, which mixes computer-generated figures with human actors. As with all things Kubrickian, the story line is a bit of a mystery. Semel describes it as "a boy in space and artificial intelligence," while Kubrick's friend and producer on Eyes...
...Most developing countries aggressively sell ecotourism, while few foreign-aid programs are complete without an ecotourism element. Two years ago, Brazil unveiled a $200 million program to develop ecotourism in the Amazon region. A project to build a visitors center, upgrade trails and construct canopy walkways has saved Ghana's Kakum rain forest from logging and other depredations. The park now employs 2,000 local people and attracts 40,000 tourists a year. Receipts from about 1,600 visitors each day are keeping afloat the Xcaret ecopark in Yucatan, Mexico--and also funding the 50 scientists who work there...
...Windows users. It's been a long time coming, but it looks like average PC-users are finally going to get their hands on some of the features Microsoft has up till now reserved for the computer elite. According to a report by PC Week Online, Microsoft will develop one more version of Windows based on the original Windows 95 software, then it plans to make the leap to a version based on Windows NT, the faster, stabler operation system Microsoft created to allow businesses and power users to run mission-critical applications more efficiently and reliably...
...early teens are the years when parents fall off the pedestal. While 57% of 9- to 11-year-olds say they want to be like their parents, only 26% of 12- to 14-year-olds do. "This is the 100% normal, virtually inevitable moment when kids develop an allergy to their parents," says Wolf. "They don't want to breathe the same way their parents...