Word: hookups
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Sound cynical? Of course a hookup program for a dance is no big deal. But this harmless, frivolous Web site is an example of a real danger facing us in the information age. Soon your entire dossier, complete with your travel destinations, on-line buying patterns, wealth and now even your love life, will be accessible to such information elite. And someone, somewhere, just might be having an awful lot of fun with...
...studying with your friends in Quincy, you don't have to call on the outdoor phone to be let in." What they really mean: "With your new, improved, universal slidey card, avoid all the embarassment of waiting outside for a late-night rendezvous with your Quincy House hookup pal." Too bad they don't offer the access to Wellesley students...
...navigation experiment with Global Positioning System satellites. For the first time ever, the shuttle successfully received GPS data -- and that's something of a relief after a $33 million antimatter experiment was ruined Tuesday by communication breakdowns. Coming after the antenna malfunction that prevented TV broadcasts of their Mir hookup, the astronauts must have wondered whether their record of woes would outpace the Russian station's. Now the only thing they need worry about is storage space...
Still, imagine a well-run, serious school with an Internet hookup in the library for occasional use by students under supervision who are working on research projects; would that be so bad? No. Though it ranks around 944th on my list of important school improvements, it's not bad. But in reality, too many schools will use the Internet the same way they use computers themselves: to entertain children at minimal cost to teachers. If children are turned loose to surf, then Internet in the schools won't be a minor educational improvement, it will be a major disaster. Another...
...trusted. "Governments will always find a way to tax the Net," says McCullagh, who points out a recent Clinton-Gore project: the $2.25 billion library-and-school universal service fund, which was paid for with surcharges on extra home-phone lines -- traditionally used for Internet hookup. "Despite what Clinton wants you to hear," he says, "that's hardly deregulatory...