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...interior of the ministry is still outfitted partly with rotary-dial phones. And typewriters. Bells chime every workday at 3 p.m. to remind employees to do their calisthenics. Small things, of course, but they are signs that while the U.S. zipped along a new technological path in the 1990s, Japan was stuck in a slow-motion devolution from economic miracle to financial debacle, doing things the old way by subsidizing money-losing industries. "I used to be asked quite a lot to give advice to Americans, to explain our success," says Ryozo Hayashi, a vice minister. "But it's been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Case Scenario | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Emily Blue, 25, was driving home from dinner with friends several weeks ago when she decided to call a friend on her Sprint PCS portable cell phone. She was still dialing as she went through an intersection and plowed into a parked Ford Explorer, totaling her own Acura Integra. While suffering only a burnt lip after the air bag exploded in her face, Blue admits to being plenty embarrassed. "I know better than to dial and drive," she insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Hands, No Harm | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

What Virtual Advisor adds is wireless, voice-prompted phone service and Internet access to a customized menu of news, sports and stock portfolios. Just say the word stocks, news or weather--or the word dial when you want to place a call--and the onboard computer fetches. Access is limited (you can't get AOL, for example), and there's a lag in news and sports scores, because they are first read into the system by real people. E-mail, on the other hand, is instantly "verbalized" using text-to-speech software that recites your mail in that eerie, intonation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Hands, No Harm | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...example, a dial-up modem that connects to the Net over copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telecom Stocks: Busted By Broadband | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Nothing in Allegra Goodman's previous fiction--two volumes of short stories and the highly praised novel Kaaterskill Falls (1998)--has quite prepared readers for the sustained comic exuberance of Paradise Park (Dial; 360 pages; $24.95). Her earlier work certainly wasn't grim, but it tended toward the polished and well mannered and resonant, a la 19th century British fiction. Not this time. Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book by discovering and recording a thoroughly uninhibited narrative voice. Bellow found Augie March, and Roth hit upon Alexander Portnoy. Goodman gives the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portnoy, Move Over | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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