Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wondering what I was doing out here in the middle of nowhere, is real world journalism at its best--the kind rarely practiced anymore since the advent of television and internet services. A journalist, my editor is fond of saying, must be skilled in becoming an instant expert at anything and everything and then passing on the knowledge to the public--all for tomorrow's paper...
Through constant immersion, and for better or worse, I am becoming an expert on the Tour and the country it blazes through. I am living as the locals live and covering the same terrain as the cyclists (although, I must admit, in relative comfort in comparison to their journeys of sweat and strain). In this way, reporting is like acting; I must study and then acquire, for a time, the identity of my sources...
...Expert: Uh, I don't know...
...Expert: [stunned silence...
...ubiquitous supercomputing, unlimited memory capacity, medical nano-devices small enough to float in the human bloodstream, and beyond - but it will be years before actual functioning molecular computers will be constructed. "This is an important stepping stone, but we still have a long way to go, " James Tour, an expert in the field who teaches at Rice University, told the New York Times. "I don't want people to think that in three to five years we'll have molecular electronics...