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...Disco Club,” and throughout “They Don’t Want Music”—a tribute to adding jazzy musicality to beats. The song might be the Black Eyed Peas’ theme song. They didn’t invent any of the things they do, but they do them well, making musically inventive songs that still fall squarely into the dance-pop category...
...those organizations focused in varying degrees on applied science--attempts to invent useful new technologies--but all of them put money into pure science as well. So did private corporations, including AT&T, IBM and Xerox, which hired not just engineers but also mathematicians, physicists, biologists and even astronomers and gave them free rein. The strategy led to utterly impractical but revolutionary discoveries. The Big Bang theory of the cosmos, to name just one example, got its first experimental proof at AT&T's Bell Labs...
...Plague, there is a doctor who does everything he can to save. In the midst of death, there is a human being who sacrifices his days and nights--and maybe risks his life--to save people he'd never met. Camus said, "Where there is no hope, one must invent hope." It is only pessimistic if you stop with the first half of the sentence and just say, There is no hope. Like Camus, even when it seems hopeless, I invent reasons to hope...
...listen to an iPod—and whatever it would mean to mp3 something, it’s not obvious I’ve ever done it.Still, history suggests a great diversity of ways in which we’ve attached verbs to technology. When the car was invented, ‘driving’ was borrowed from the owners of carriages, and to travel on an airplane was naturally termed ‘flying.’ ‘Phone’ and ‘telephone,’ long-standing fixtures of language both, appear...
...others. The proliferation of terms in the queer rights movement—especially “queer” itself—is due, in part, to a reclamation of the words that proceed or accompany fear and physical violence. Moving beyond these imposed terms, we invent new words like homophobia and heterosexism because these inventions prove more accurate, useful tools in an ongoing battle for fairness and recognition, maybe not for everyone, but in strategic situations. Other groups, marginalized and otherwise, have done the same. The terms that the black civil rights movement used to identify its members...