Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Internet scared Japanese people," says Yukiko Takahashi, a manager at Bandai Networks, a subsidiary of the toy company that gave the world the Tamagotchi virtual pet and created rudimentary games that have been big hits on i-mode. "It made people think about connecting a PC, using a keyboard, modems, ISDN lines, stuff they didn't understand and stuff that cost too much. The smartest thing DoCoMo did was not to use the word Internet in any of its promotions...
...wireless e-mail, short messaging (SMS) and Web surfing into one 160-g package. Surprisingly, it doesn't look like the demon spawn of a phone and a shoe. The gunmetal blue Treo appears to be a big-screen handset. But beneath a clamshell protective cover lies a QWERTY keyboard for surfing, pecking out electronic messages and managing personal data (Handspring also offers a keyboard-less model that, like Palm organizers, relies on touch-screen and stylus for character input...
CYBERSEAT One more reason never to get up. Oblivious to the dotcom downturn, La-Z-Boy is moving impetuously into the Internet space with the Explorer ($1,049), a new reclining chair that comes with a built-in wireless keyboard from Sony and a Microsoft WebTV receiver that accesses the Internet through your TV. If only the Explorer came with a business plan and venture capital, it would be perfect...
...Clifford Brown, dead in a car wreck, whose only vice was chess. Miles Davis, who beat back his inner darkness and took jazz to the peak of its last great popularity. Thelonious Monk, a generative spirit of compulsive genius, who applied a kind of circular geometry to the keyboard and gave jazz new contours. Billie Holiday, the beautiful desolation angel, the most ravishing and ravaged of jazz singers, whose rendition of Autumn in New York Burns allows to play out here as a threnody for jazz's last great era. Bird passes, and Billie passes, and Lester Young, and Louis...
...entered the age of genomics, in which they will study huge numbers of genes acting in concert. "The gene is like a piano key," says James Shreeve, author of an upcoming book, The Golden Code. "Up to this point, we've been going after notes. Now we have the keyboard. You had to have that level of detail to understand the music...