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...attention of both citizens and the press: They announced their plans to hold the nation's first binding election for public office using the Internet. The primary, which was given the final go-ahead by Attorney General Janet Reno last week, will allow registered Democrats in Arizona to log in from any computer that has access to the World Wide Web and enter their preferences for the primary...
Abraham Lincoln built and lived in his own log cabin. When accused of being two-faced by Stephen Douglas, he replied, iIf I had another face, do you think I would wear this...
Several writers played with the idea of what life online and off-line would look like. TIME contributor Robert Wright explains why we will never log off again, while FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing does a hilarious send-up of what will happen to today's couch potatoes. (Hint: think mashed.) David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, argues that despite the way our lives are being turned into data streams, we will have as much privacy as we need. Novelist Mark Leyner predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events...
WILL WOMEN STILL NEED MEN? -- WILL POLITICIANS MATTER? WILL WE HAVE ANY PRIVACY LEFT? -- WHAT WILL MAKE US LAUGH? -- WHAT WILL WE DO ON SATURDAY NIGHT? -- WHAT WILL OUR HOUSES LOOK LIKE? -- WILL WE EVER LOG OFF? WILL WE STILL GO OUT TO THE GAME? -- WILL THE CRIME RATE KEEP FALLING? -- WILL A WOMAN BECOME POPE? -- WHAT WILL WE WEAR? -- WHAT WILL OUR SKYLINE LOOK LIKE? -- WILL TEENAGERS DISAPPEAR? -- WHO WILL BE THE NEXT ELITE...
...will have trouble surviving at all. The reason? No time to go to a club to hear a live human being tell jokes, or wait through 45 minutes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien before the stand-up appears. People looking for a laugh will simply log on and sift through the database of every joke and routine any comedian has ever told on TV, radio or record. The computers will then cancel out redundant routines--any piece of material that has been done by more than one comedian. This will leave Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Robert Klein...