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...Route 128 across the nation to Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie. Upbeat theorists are prognosticating a ``virtual Washington'' in which members of Congress can debate and vote from back home, and several Representatives have asked to be allowed to vote from their districts. Newt Gingrich, the first self-proclaimed futurist to become the Speaker of the House, is in the process of putting Capitol Hill online, allowing computer users to gain access to pending legislation through a new information system named ``Thomas'' after -- who else? -- Thomas Jefferson...
With a history professor's sense of occasion, a futurist's grasp of possibilities and a politician's dexterity with symbols, Gingrich brought two gavels with him that day. The first -- a link to the past and a token of how long the G.O.P. had waited to regain power -- had belonged to Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, the last Republican Speaker, who relinquished it to the Democrats 40 years ago. The other, a jumbo mallet suggestive of Gingrich's power and willingness to use it, was donated by a fan. On opening day he favored...
...only one disaster away from poverty. A divorce, an arrest, a disabling illness can destroy a working family's financial resources. It's fine to be charmed by Newt's revolution -- some of his prescriptions deserve support -- but we should think twice before we cut. "Poverty," said that ancient futurist Aristotle, "is the parent of crime and revolution" -- a wise warning about an upheaval far different from the one Gingrich has in mind...
Back last September when TIME decided to venture into cyberspace, where no newsmagazine had gone before, we chose America Online as our launch vehicle and Tom Mandel, a professional futurist with a keen sense of the present, as our guide. Since then TIME Online has become a popular destination in this fast-growing computer-network universe. Within the past three months, the number of visitors to TIME Online has increased from 40,000 a week to 60,000, a trend that shows no sign of slowing. America Online, which had 350,000 users in September, now boasts more than...
...professional futurist and management consultant with SRI International in Menlo Park, California, Mandel considers that the greatest appeal of TIME Online stems from the opportunity to "mix it up" with staff members and even, every now and again, with the people we interview. "When we had Billy Graham live online, the response was tremendous," Mandel says. "I'd never seen anyone be so charismatic through the computer...