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...couldn't stay a child. A blind man on his own had to be an instant grownup--insisting he get paid in singles, say, to avoid being cheated. Charles wouldn't baby himself (except for his heroin habit) or let others kid him. What he says sounds arrogant, but it's a fact: "I walk out alone in the dark and do something no one's done in music and business...
...which will record movies on a hard-disc drive. And then there's the get-the-neighbors-talking factor. Ritch Wheeler, 33, a sales manager for DaimlerChrysler from Denton, Texas, recently bought a 42-in. plasma TV on the Internet from Gateway for $3,000 and has got an instant popularity boost. "Everybody who walks into the house comments on the TV," he boasts. "They look at it like the piece of wall-mounted art that it's supposed to be. It really does look cool." Wheeler eventually wants to cover his living-room walls with three huge flat...
...edged sword: it can empower you, but it can also mess with your privacy. And there's such a thing as too much info. Stick a wi-fi-enabled camera on a streetlamp, stick a solar panel on the camera for power, and suddenly you have got cheap, instant 24-hr. streaming-video surveillance. "How many cities wouldn't want that?" Stalter asks rhetorically. "So Blade Runner is happening." (I think he means 1984, but same difference...
...neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., is so tight, it took 45 minutes of circling the block before I found a space. I spent that time doing a thought experiment: What if Vivato lit up my neighborhood with wi-fi? Then you could have curbside sensors that page your car the instant a spot opens up ... maybe a heads-up display on the windshield, showing a map of where the perfect spot...
...this, we would learn later, that had probably sealed our fate for the evening. Unbeknownst to us, we had been spotted and marked by a quartet of thugs standing probably just a few feet away, though we were oblivious to their presence. The moment of obliviousness faded in an instant when I realized just how careless we had been. I stashed the camera back in my pocket, but our foolishness had already done...