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Today we are engulfed by the signal-carrying waves of broadcast radio and TV. Come 2025, we will be engulfed by a "cybersphere" in which billions of "information structures" will drift (invisible but real, like radio waves) bearing the words, sounds and pictures on which our lives depend. That's because the electronic world will have achieved some coherence by 2025. Instead of phone, computer and TV networks side by side, one network will do it all. TVs and phones and computers will all be variations on one theme. Their function will be to tune in these information structures...
Teaching a 9 a.m. class seems like a losing proposition. Not only do professors have to wake up early themselves, but they must watch their students drift off to sleep in the middle of their sentences...
...would try to avoid looking at the pinball machine in the corner. But gradually he'd lose his resolve and go to the bar to get change. A few tables away, a young Amherst graduate who had been reading Camus, occasionally nodding sagely and muttering "Quelle ironie," would drift over to the machine and see how the Princetonian was faring. "I won 14 games off that baby yesterday," the Amherst man might say. A conversation would ensue. That's how Americans with a deep interest in Sartre and Camus met each other in Europe in the late...
...task of this month's Security Council chairman - U.S. ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who'll have to find a new nominee unless Russia backs down on Ekeus - is made more difficult by the growing anti-U.S. drift in Moscow's foreign policy. Although Russia has long opposed Washington's policy in the Gulf, its opposition hasn't been particularly forceful. But with a new strategic doctrine that explicitly views the U.S. as an adversary whose influence is to be curbed, Moscow may not be inclined to help Washington out of a tight spot. On the other hand, Russia...
Some men get wiser with age, others, it seems, only drift farther and farther from the neighborhood of good sense. Jesse Jackson, who has been relatively quiet since last spring's sojourn with Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic, is back in the headlines, this time crusading on behalf of high-school hoodlums...