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...likes a song he hears on the radio, he can order it on Amazon with a few taps of his stylus. And if he decides he'll stop off at an Internet start-up in San Francisco's SoMa (South of Market) district, he doesn't need a map. His car, equipped with a global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver on its dashboard, gives him spoken, block-by-block directions...
...curtain went up promptly at 9 a.m. last Tuesday when Greenspan stepped through the doorway that connects his office to the boardroom to signal the start of the FOMC meeting. (The room sports a large map of the U.S. at one end and, at the other, a fireplace with a bronze sculpture of Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture and fertility.) Instead of taking his usual place at the head of the table, Greenspan pulled out a chair in the middle--a move that highlighted his desire to forge a consensus but set off a round of musical chairs...
Thanks to localization, PDAs can give you directions linked to where you are at any given time. Overlay a map of the Grand Canyon, and it can tell you which path to take to get out. Not surprisingly, many of the localization services revolve around mobile commerce, which the industry has dubbed m-commerce. Your handheld, or for that matter your cell phone, can point you to the nearest Starbucks or Chinese restaurant. When you're lost on the road, it can lead you to the closest gas station...
...their surrogates to a bunch of smaller but messier and more persistent conflicts within countries. But don't be fooled. The stakes will be just as high over the next quarter-century as they were in the last, for the new disorder won't dissipate until the political map of the Middle East has been redrawn...
...Take home exam: Draw a freehand map of the world. Fill in national boundaries, capitals, heads of state, principal industries and crops...