Word: high-tech
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...zero-balance money-market accounts is that one person's darkest nightmare is quite often another's dream come true. In rural Montana, where, it seems fair to speculate, more people know how to gather firewood than download a video image from the Web, the prospect of a massive high-tech meltdown is not only nothing to panic over but also, for a lot of folks, something to be welcomed...
...story on monstrous houses that tycoons build, focusing on Bill Gates' "high-tech haven," smacked of sour grapes. If Gates has wealth that he earned by hard work, let him enjoy it and spend it how he chooses. Don't resent it when people have amassed a lot of money through their labors. They deserve to live any way they want. JAYANTHI DE ALWIS Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...Grand Princess is the name of the (a) hottest London restaurant (b) newest Las Vegas hotel (c) high-tech cell phone (d) world's largest cruise ship...
...result is a darkly comic vision of the future impact of a high-tech revolution that Sterling's earlier work helped create. He grew up in a Texas refinery town, the son of a petroleum engineer and grandson of a cattle rancher. While studying journalism at the University of Texas in the late '70s, he fell in with a group of budding writers that included William Gibson, John Shirley and Greg Bear. The cyberpunks, as they called themselves, were obsessed with all things digital, and in the '80s managed somehow to reverse pop culture's aesthetic field, turning slouching, sullen...
...spirit of entrepreneurship has inspired some specialized objects of philanthropic attention. Katrina Garnett, CEO of Crossworlds Software in Burlingame, Calif., and one of the high-tech world's few female chief executives, launched a foundation last year devoted to encouraging high school girls to pursue computer science. Kirsch, meanwhile, plans to pump $100,000 a year into identifying all asteroids hurtling too close to earth. "There are very few things people can do to save the world," he says. "This is one of them...