Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever seen. Carpoint.com the Microsoft website, lets you look at 3D, interactive pictures of the inside of dozens of sports cars--something you can't do anywhere in the real world. The virtual world, for all its hype and promise, is finally delivering on at least one big idea: information, at last, is at your fingertips. This is what explains--even justifies--Jerry and David's billions. More fingertips start their Web travels at Yahoo.com than at any other site...
...match your needs and desires as quickly as your Pentium can get online. It's possible to get everything from custom newspapers to electronic newsletters that alert you to sales of items you've always craved. Futurists used to call these services "The Daily Me," a play on the idea of daily newspapers. But customized websites are delivering something more like "the instant me"--real-time collections of just the information you want, which you can use to shop, buy a stock or plan a last-minute trip. In our 20th century consumer culture, it may seem almost too good...
...process emotional trauma as well as girls can, and without proper guidance can go haywire. And Pollack, as expected, says misdirected rage is a response to emotional repression and to society's message that anger is an acceptable male emotion. The latter argument--like Pollack's overall idea--seems more expansive and more convincing. But either way, we clearly ought to be paying more attention...
...years. "It represents such fine ideals, like nonviolent resolution of conflict where possible," says Kraft, an interlibrary-loans assistant in Minnesota. He organized petitions, got Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and some Senators to write to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. The committee rejected the idea. Then came the Celebrate the Century series, in which the U.S. Postal Service had people vote on which icons represented the '60s best. That's all the opening Kraft and the Enterprise Stamp Committee needed. The battle is won. What will Kraft do now? "If I found another project I could feel...
...blame, especially blame. Once we thought it would be simple. Thurgood Marshall predicted the end to all school segregation within five years of Brown v. Board of Education. Now we live with thwarted expectations and the sort of intellectual meanness that goes with disappointed hopes. Integration, the best idea this country ever had, dares not speak its name...