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...world: zillions of little units--in this case neurons--do their own thing but together make up an entity of almost unfathomable complexity. Change the word neurons to "six-legged workers," and you'd have an ant colony. Change "ants" to "online buyers and sellers," and you'd have eBay. Change that to "stock traders," and you'd have NASDAQ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Board Of Technologists: High Tech Evolves | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

There are some baseball fans so rabid that a signed mitt or a piece of AstroTurf does not constitute an adequate relic. Perhaps this explains a $23,000 bid on eBay last week for bone chips removed from the elbow of Seattle Mariners pitcher JEFF NELSON, which he had put up for auction for charity. It was not unprecedented. Recently a man paid $10,000 for a piece of gum chewed by Arizona Diamondback Luis Gonzalez, and another paid $75 for clippings from the goatee of Oakland A Tim Hudson. Neither of those transactions took place on eBay, however, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 27, 2002 | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...Omen Some of the computer chips in NASA's space shuttle technology are so outdated that the government agency has to shop for replacements on eBay and Yahoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...with a $40 late fee for a copy of Apollo 13 back in 1998. "If I'd returned it on time," he says, "we wouldn't be here today." Now Jupiter Media Metrix rates Netflix.com as one of the 10 busiest e-commerce sites, a list that also includes eBay and Amazon. Every day 82,000 DVDs roll through the conveyor belts of Netflix's headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif., and its hubs in Boston and Los Angeles. Last week, as Hastings filed with the sec to take his company public and dreamed of raising a cool $115 million, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Movie Is in the Mail | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...Jordan Items on eBay ? If his name or face is on it, it's probably available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly Web Guide: Jan. 21, 2002 Issue | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

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