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...idea that a high-tech house hold will be a happy one does not appeal to our generation as it once did to our parents' generation. People have found that it is easier for technology to help us escape the earth and tour the moon than to mend the planet's ills. In fact, many now harbor a level of resentment toward progress, which is sometimes viewed as an instrument to undermine the stability of society. We recognize the importance of having strong community goals underlying our technological advances. Indeed, both technology and community are required to move forward without...
...guarantee follows BBN Planet's recent completion of a new Internet "backbone," a high-tech tool designed to ensure the availability of network service 99.9 percent of the time, said Vaughn Harring, public relations manager for BBN Planet...
Other students may already have a computer, but simply need accessories like Ethernet cards and printers. In any case, there are few better places in the country than Boston to shop for high-tech goodies...
...Coast. For years they kept up a bicoastal relationship, says Ben, "the way families that live far apart usually see each other, on occasional visits." Now, after 40 years, they see each other all the time. Yet why, after such extraordinary careers, do they need the headache of a high-tech start-up? "We both like tilting against giants," says Ben. "When Harold started his satellite program at Hughes, he was going against AT&T. In the personal-computer business, I was up against IBM and other giants." The giants ignored them, and paid the price. The Rosens have this...
Your cable line, by contrast, has enough data-carrying capacity--or bandwidth--to deliver 60 or 70 channels of live video the instant you turn on the tube. It is, in high-tech parlance, a very fat "pipe"--some 300 times as fat as "twisted pair" copper phone lines. What if, the cable industry breathlessly asks, some of that bandwidth could be diverted to the Internet? How might entertainment and commerce--not to mention the industry's bottom line--be transformed...