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MOORE Computers will become a lot more transparent--you won't recognize you're using one. With advances in speech recognition, you'll be able to walk up, ask a question in English, and it'll dig out an answer. People with little education are going to be able to participate. The digital divide is going to disappear. Electronics systems will start doing what we want rather than the other way around--I hope...
...Residents have attacked the plan--which would replace two existing University buildings on either side of the Cambridge Street near Quincy Street and dig an underground connecting tunnel--because of the proposed center's size and the increased traffic it would bring...
...loose with other kinds of logic. In his West, horses sit down when you need them to be up and doing, Indian princesses are as sportively knowing as any of the gals in Sex and the City, and a guy buried up to his neck in sand manages to dig himself out with a pair of chopsticks...
Robert Caro, the biographer of Lyndon Johnson, thinks the main difference is time. The historian has the time to dig deeper and sift more thoroughly than the journalist can. The historian's relative leisure allows for the correction of mistakes - including errors made by journalists in their haste. Caro was talking about this the other night at the New York Public Library. He spent years prowling around in Lyndon Johnson's early life, he said, only to discover that most of the lore on the subject was all wrong; LBJ had invented it. Caro began getting it right only when...
Well, don't start your dig just yet. PCs may be great for solitary pursuits, composing Powerpoint presentations or writing. But as long as co-workers need to brainstorm, bat around ideas and just plain gossip, they will always return to the water cooler, choosing a little face-to-face time over e-mail and the Web. Says Christine Albertini, vice president of advanced concepts at office-furniture maker Steelcase: "The basic nature of work is social...