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...level, you can hardly blame the major party candidates. The shoppers, the commuters, the high-tech employees and, yes, the soccer moms--they are registered voters, likely to vote but unsure for whom. They may be fickle, but they have influence too; not quite like the AARP and its waving fields of gray, but a powerful constituency nonetheless. It's why Medicare, prescription drug importation and income tax credits fill the candidates' speeches, even when they are held in school auditoriums and on city streets...
...Intel, see, is the bluest of the blue-chip tech stocks, considered the sector's best indicator of where the overall high-tech winds are blowing. It's a member of the Dow, NASDAQ and the S&P, which is the practical reason why Wall Street's trio of indexes all tanked on the news. But the spiritual malaise is just as contagious; Microsoft, Dell and Cisco all took overnight hits as well. Intel's announcement also comes early in a third-quarter earnings season that investors are nervous enough about already. Bad earnings news revives fears that Greenspan...
...Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have all instituted similar "specialty" court divisions. And Maryland's governor has formulated a study group called the Business and Technology Division Task Force, whose sole responsibility is to determine whether or not the state court system should be reorganized to include a special circuit of "high-tech" courts...
Right now Turkle is especially intrigued by the complex interactions children have with Furbies, the fuzzy high-tech toys that speak (in "Furbish"), learn words that are spoken to it and respond to being held. Is "Furby love" different from "human love," she wants to know--and how? The hardware Turkle cares about is humanity's own hard drive. "The question for me isn't what the computer does," she says, "but what the computer does...
...create 10 million new high-tech jobs...