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...getting your hands on the hardware is only half the battle. Hooking a nonstandard CD recorder up to an industry-standard computer may take a bit of doing--even for someone who's not afraid to read a manual. Then there's the bandwidth problem. Downloading full-length music CDs over even a high-speed modem will clog your phone line for a lot more hours than it takes to drive to the nearest Tower Records and back. That's assuming you can find a full-length version of the music you want. The RealAudio versions of songs that most...
...system this complex, software glitches are inevitable, as a Japanese Ministry of Construction fact sheet acknowledges. "When any anomaly occurs with running vehicle," the memo explains, "a warning is generated and vehicle operation changes from automated mode to manual mode." O.K., but what if you and the kids are playing Scrabble in the back of the camper van when that anomaly hits? You're traveling at highway speeds, and you have 1.5 seconds to bring the van under control before impact. Good luck...
Unfortunately, that's exactly not the premise of this otherwise fascinating treatise, in which Grove offers up a readable user's manual for the new digital economy, plus a how-to for managers worried about their business and, by extension, their career. This book is about finding rational ways to survive what Grove calls the "10x"--tenfold--factors that can threaten to change everything about a business in an instant. Just as the car turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove...
Working with New York State and nonprofit groups, the two men have developed a promising design manual--now circulating nationwide--for building small, affordable efficiency units for the mentally ill homeless. The concept is "low tech, low budget," says Gran, but it uses "materials, colors and space to create a pleasing, comfortable, noninstitutional environment." Residents living in New York City prototypes give them thumbs...
...fancy myself a cafe-kind of intellectual," says Washington, who also believes in the value of manual labor--admitting he borrows this theory straight from his Social Studies 10 reading on Marx. "Work is a way of regnerating yourself," he says. "There's a lot to be said for being a person who uses your hands to earn your bread...