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...BATTLEFIELD High-tech weaponry and nanotechnology will make the future warrior more lethal and better protected. Swooping into enemy territory, he can shoot at targets two miles (3km) away an remain undetected...
...fact is that Third World hacking has political frisson. There's a satisfaction in outsmarting the developed world's best computer minds--a high-tech, Jesse Jackson-style cry of "I am somebody!" That certainly seems to be a widespread response in the Philippines. De Guzman's fellow students at AMA expressed quiet pride in his alleged international cybersabotage last week. The Manila Standard saluted him as "The country's first world-class hacker." "Yes," the paper exclaimed, "the Filipino...
When they divvy up the $27 billion intelligence budget each year, it's not the well-known CIA that takes the lion's share. The real haul goes to an obscure agency called the National Reconnaissance Office, which builds and deploys the country's high-tech, supersecret spy satellites. For the billions of dollars it receives, the NRO produces portfolios of invaluable high-resolution pictures (which can indeed read license plates from space). The photos give the U.S. a jump on adversaries as diverse as North Korean missile builders and South American drug lords...
They gave Cast Away's protagonist a job that symbolizes interconnected, high-tech society: he's a Federal Express efficiency expert. "We took this guy who is modern man to the nth degree," Hanks says, "whose life had been computers and 747s and packages, and reduced him to lapping water that he's collected in a rainstorm from a leaf." Hence, says Broyles, the two-word title: "He is cast away. He has to cast away all the elements of civilized life to survive...
...truly competing newspapers. And Woodbury is correct about the effectiveness of JOAs - in the late 1970s, 28 cities had two papers joined at their wallets via JOAs; today, only 13 do. "It's one of the great mysteries of newspaper economics," says Woodbury. "Denver is a boom town, going high-tech and attracting a lot of transplants. Part of it might just be bad management at the News." Part of it also might be that those tech-savvy transplants are content to hit the newsstands in cyberspace and read the Times from L.A. or New York online - at zero dollars...