Word: high-tech
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...enterprise, assuming it would just enrich manufacturing élites. The lesson of Husker Harvest Days is that modern farmers--at least the ones with most of the land and subsidies--are a new manufacturing élite. They just happen to be manufacturing food and fiber. Production agriculture is a high-tech, globalized business with economies of scale. You don't buy a $410,000 combine to farm the back...
Dining at Harvard used to be a classy experience. Very little about the Harvard of 2007 recalls the glory of our college’s more genteel days. Once resplendent, Harvard’s dining halls have surrendered the patrician in favor of the high-tech and the modern. Those tempted to doubt the completeness of the transition need look no further than Harvard University Dining Service’s (HUDS) recent purchase of 13 flat-screen televisions and accompanying interactive digital kiosks...
...more elegant we were than everyone else. Whither went our intricately carved wooden chairs? Our tables crafted from aged, solid oak covered in soft, silken tablecloths? Our bow-tied and jacketed service staff? The degrading and dishonorable concept of self-service—requesting our own meals on high-tech kiosks, for example—had as large a place in this elegant world of silk and mahogany as women did on the student side of the kitchen door...
...using far-out technology to create limited-edition pieces that are almost as expensive as a work of art. Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquière cut old-fashioned floral-printed radzimir, the heavy silk once used for mourning garments, with a laser and then bonded it with the flexible, breathable high-tech fabric commonly found in extreme-sports apparel. The dresses will retail for $7,000. At Roger Vivier, a pair of chiffon-and-leather sandals, braided and painted by hand, will ring in at $4,000--and only three pairs will be made. "Where is the luxury...
Dining halls are now serving up nutrition information on a high-tech array of glowing flat-screen monitors that cost them thousands of dollars...