Word: digests
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...right. So they applied what they learned from November. Namely, nothing. Again, they chose being fast over necessarily being right. And this time they didn't even have the excuse of bad data. The answer was in their chilly little hands; they just decided not to digest it before reporting. In general, they pulled off a remarkable feat of deadline analysis. Thing is, that used to be what you did after you absorbed the facts. The supreme chaos was testimony to TV news's inability to utter three little words: "We don't know...
...place where experts from entirely different academic disciplines mind-meld furiously, then run off in pursuit of the most challenging technological problems they can come up with. And right now, at the dawn of the Internet age, PARC scientists are most motivated by the question of how we digest our increasingly bloated diet of data. After all, they say, your total potential reading matter increased by a factor of 10,000 during the 1990s. "In a world where information is abundant, the scarce resource is attention," says Stu Card of PARC's User Interface research team. "That's what...
...this problem, director Matt Hudson found the simplest solution: he cut. The cast was reduced to about half its prescribed size, Timon's speeches were shortened or eliminated and the verbal exchanges between characters were reduced to the bare minimum. This aides comprehension, and the production is an effective digest of the original Timon, retaining all the original pathos in significantly fewer words...
...this is problematic not simply for our democratic participation but also for our pretensions of empiricism, for our ability to distinguish facts. Our digest-happy modern world has taught us to accept news, facts and truth abstracted and condensed to such a level that nothing but opinion remains...
...haven't had time to digest the issue but I am definitely a supporter of their taking action," he said. "It's worth it to get the word...