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Remember when hand-held computer gadgets were cool? When strangers on a bus would cast envious--or at least curious--glances at geeks and road warriors tapping away on their Palms and Blackberries? Lately the novelty has worn thin. With look-alikes proliferating and disposable income shrinking, sales of pricey...
Despite the dearth of diversity, however, the tourists still flock to this Cambridge by the bus-load. Every morning as I walk to lectures, I sigh with nostalgia as I stop and wait for eager tourists to take pictures with their six different digital cameras and camcorders. At these moments...
And I still am. Here at Harvard, I feel out of place in a digital world. It’s not just that I still prefer sending and receiving snail mail to e-mail. (Though, in my maturity, I have come to realize that the Winthrop House mailroom is no...
Allied victory unleashed a surge of technological progress and prosperity at war's end. On Feb. 14, 1946, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled the first electronic, digital computer. A year later, on Oct. 14, 1947, Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. There were cultural and...
Remember WebTV? Microsoft's accountants sure do. The software superpower spent $425 million to buy and promote a system that married the brains of the personal computer with the entertainment value of television, allowing people to surf the Internet and watch Seinfeld on the same monitor. Like a lot of...