Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monica Dean, director of the program's national business school network, says the organization is trying to avoid what she says may be perceived as "an issue of ego" with business school students...
...think of anything else on the service side that is really high on the radar screen," Silverman says. In any case, he notes, what drives him today is no longer the money ("It's not an economic issue") so much as the "fear of failure and the ego gratification of success. It's a way of expressing creative energy." Even if few people outside the business world have ever heard of your company...
...reasons for using the new technology, pure ego raises the most hackles. It's one thing to want to be remembered after you are gone; it's quite another to manufacture a living monument to ensure that you are. Some observers claim to be shocked that anyone would contemplate such a thing. But that's naive--and even disingenuous. It's obvious that a lot of people would be eager to clone themselves...
More palatable than the ego clone to some bioethicists is the medical clone, a baby created to provide transplant material for the original. Nobody advocates harvesting a one-of-a-kind organ like a heart from the new child--an act that would amount to creating the clone just to kill it. But it's hard to argue against the idea of a family's loving a child so much that it will happily raise another, identical child so that one of its kidneys or a bit of its marrow might allow the first to live. "The reasons for opposing...
Mathews explains that the game not only fulfills a major procrastinatory function, it also has the potential to deliver a huge ego boost...