Word: frontierment
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According to Beverly A. Rubik, director of theCenter for Frontier Sciences at Temple University,"Whether you're a young assistant professor or atenured professor, if you ask unconventional, boldquestions, you're going to find great oppositionfrom the Church of science...
...Brandy, babe. Hello law-and-order on the electronic frontier. "In its simplest form, we are taking the antismut and antipornography laws that have long been in place with the telephone and the mails, and applying them to the information superhighway," says Senator Jim Exon, the Nebraska Democrat who sponsored the decency act. "I want to make the information superhighway as safe as possible for kids...
...travels across these networks. Americans call it multimedia; the Japanese call it ``maruchimedia.'' By whatever name, it encompasses everything from CD-ROM games to two-way television to the Internet, and quite a bit more. While foreign companies, most of them in the U.S., are zipping ahead along this frontier, Japan is way behind, clueless in cyberspace. What's going...
...sees ``a revolution in the way the Mexican views the gringo.'' In the past, he says, ``the ruling classes emphasized our acute differences with the Anglo-Saxons in order to affirm our separate identity. But now hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans have built bridges to the U.S. The frontier has become but a minor inconvenience. Perhaps it is utopian, but I look forward to its disappearance.'' From south of the border, at least, Mex-America beckons...
...they are retrained if they lose their job, how much access they have to their government and how they will learn about the critical issues affecting them and the country. No less an expert than Mitch Kapor, co-founder of Lotus Development Corp. and now president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, feels that those who do not have access ``will be highly correlated with the general have-nots. Early in the next century the network will become the major conduit through which we conduct our lives. Any disenfranchisement will be very severe...