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Can technology truly change such a remote place? Harald Kjensli, Modalen's official computer manager, is counting on it. He expects residents will apply for building permits online and eventually hold virtual town meetings. Kids will be able to retrieve assignments and hand in homework via the school's Web...
"It is a research centre, it is a real usability lab," said Jon Carter, the project manager for Orange at Home, an experiment in futuristic living led by British mobile phone operator Orange, in partnership with the Universities of Surrey and Portsmouth. (Orange is owned by France Telecom.)
Michael Dertouzos, director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, believes computers should adopt human-like qualities. They should understand our banter, joke with us, read us e-mails and, if an experiment under way in Hong Kong is any example, do a whole lot more. One2Free, a cellular service...
Harvard students fell frustratingly short of winning a major victory for campus safety and community this year when the House Masters refused to allow 24-hour access to the Houses for all students. At the start of the spring term, the advent of 24-hour universal keycard access seemed all...
As a single woman in my 30s, I'm naturally terrified of children. I mean, what do I do with them? How do I get them to do what I say? Will they even like me? To help answer these questions and that other great mystery of postmodern life--why...