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...Ubiquitous Computing,” Associate Professor of Public Policy Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger argued for computer systems to regularly delete information, a practice he calls “data ecology.” Mayer-Schoenberger—no stranger to technology, having founded a data security company called Ikarus Software in 1986—focused on Google. Google keeps records of every search inquiry made using its search engine with a Google account, including the IP address, according to its Web site. “The problem, as is usual for anyone who has read Orwell?...
...East-West trade. Said he last week: "We have 400 million people in the East who are very much interested in buying the consumer goods you produce." Hungary has actually been rather successful at selling many items in the West, from the original Rubik's Cube to Crown-Ikarus buses, which are used in Portland, Ore., and San Mateo, Calif...
...dependence on the Soviet Union and other Comecon countries, which still buy roughly 40% of the nation's exports. Some impressive examples of Hungarian products are already being exported to the West. Portland, Ore., San Mateo, Calif., and Louisville, Ky., will soon have Hungarian-American-built Crown-Ikarus buses rolling down their streets. Hungarian officials hope the Soviet Union will recognize that it has the choice of letting its satellites improve their economies-or risking a Polish-style blowup. -By John S. DeMott...
Given such problems in communication, the visitors kept very much to the Intourist regimen when they first arrived -traveling to and from the Games or the city sights in the big-windowed Ikarus buses from Hungary that have a steel bar at the back with empty coat hangers swaying when the bus is in motion. The circus was a big favorite. The first act features the famous Filatov bears and the second, a troupe of huge and somewhat soporific seals who perform in a large water tank with a stage, Like an island, in the center. On the night...