Word: globalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Previous generations didn't need to seek out risk; it showed up uninvited and regularly: global wars, childbirth complications, diseases and pandemics from the flu to polio, dangerous products and even the omnipresent cold war threat of mutually assured destruction. "I just don't think extreme sports would have been popular in a ground-war era," says Dan Cady, professor of popular culture at California State University at Fullerton. "Coming back from a war and getting onto a skateboard would not seem so extreme...
David LaMacchia, a junior and an engineering/computer science major at MIT, is charged with setting up his account on the Internet, a global data communication network, to allow users to pirate software...
...deprived? One big reason: the whizziest stuff you can do with a cell phone requires a digital network, and the Europeans had a three-year head start implementing theirs. Moreover, they chose one network technology: GSM (Global System for Mobile communications). The use of a single standard puts them in a much better position to embrace the next big thing in wireless...
...consortium called Symbian (which includes Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola), and is being positioned as the standard for next-generation cell phones--a distinct possibility since those manufacturers produce 80% of the world's mobile phones. That's probably why Microsoft referred to Psion as its "No. 1 global threat" in an internal memo last year...
...will pass. And as promised, the Internet will develop into a grand global facilitator, making us more efficient at work and at play. Some Internet companies--maybe one in 20--will survive to see it, so their stock prices today are bargains. We just don't know which ones they...