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...come true, or are we looking at another example of the Japan of 10 years ago? I believe many of the visions in your report will not come true. And by the way, I was glad to see that the world's oldest profession will not disappear. STEVEN CUENCA Makati City, the Philippines...
...service. Selling compact discs was viable as long as the companies controlled the quantity and destiny of that music." Not any more. The question for the industry is how it can still get a slice, how to make sure that all the money they spend on starmaking doesn't disappear down some college kid's hard drive. And that's where the lawyers come in. Suits against Napster and MP3.com - the latter of which settled with several of the Big Five record companies last week - are rearguard actions, meant to slow the music business' evolution and milk its aging business...
...your description of jobs that will disappear in this century, you listed stenographers (including court reporters and lots of secretaries). Whoa! Court reporters won't be replaced anytime soon, any more than fathers and mothers will be. There are too many vocal variables in courtrooms, depositions and live TV programming, not to mention foreign accents and the fast talkers of America. Until a machine can be trained to capture anyone all the time under a multitude of conditions, court reporters and stenographers will be needed. CARL SAUCEDA, PRESIDENT National Court Reporters Association Hayward, Calif...
...distinction seems unlikely to disappear from council politics any time soon...
...They are people who enjoy being out at a meeting on weeknights and occasionally torturing institutions like the University," he says. "The phenomenon you end up engaging in is negotiating with yourself. You make all these changes with respect to a different group, they're happy, they disappear, and then there's a new group...