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What had happened? Lazio hadn't reformed his platform, he hadn't given an inch to the left, and he hadn't played into anyone's hand. No matter their political ideology or their hopes for reform, a significant percentage of the New York vote simply despised Clinton and would do anything possible to avoid her representing them on Capitol Hill--even if it meant boarding the ship of an underdog with little to no chance of victory...
...computing technology has reached its limit, a new approach has stepped in to continue exponential growth (see "What Will Replace Silicon?" in this issue). Nanotubes, for example, which are already functioning in laboratories, could be fashioned into three-dimensional circuits made of hexagonal arrays of carbon atoms. One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry would be 1 million times more powerful than the human brain, at least in raw processing power...
...daily lives, high-tech experiences are increasingly replacing low-tech ones, and if we manage to design every square inch of the planet, then every experience will be a simulated one. Nature museums are cropping up in urban centers, a clear signal that the environment is in as much need of preservation as are arrowheads, shields and shuttle looms. Simulation has become the most popular experience in modern American culture. A North American child may play his snowboarding video four times a week, but he whizzes down a mountain only four days a year...
Perhaps most important, arms control gave the Soviets and us something to talk about at a time when there was very little else to talk about. We were fighting over every inch of the globe, from Berlin to Saigon. So, every few years, we would trade beans in Geneva, shake hands for the cameras and thus reassure the world that we were not going to blow...
...Shales, the 6 foot 4 inch comic was the weak link in what could otherwise be a decent program...