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...pack journalists racing from one trendy locale to the next and then turning back to sneer at the place they just left. Some of it comes from the I-told-you-so quarter, composed largely of reactionary fogies who flaunt the fact that they don't know a modem from a mousetrap. "The modern world is not dying for want of more information," Russell Baker harrumphed in a New York Times column last month, assailing, among other things, the word cyberspace itself ("... if you were given a choice of places to spend a month, which name would you select-Tuscany...
Commercial online services have been rushing to support the Web so that anyone with a computer and modem can take advantage of its features. Already, Prodigy has released a Web browser, and in the few months since that browser, and in the few months since that browser's release, several popular Web sites have suffered severe system crashes due to the flood of new users...
...seems to be abusing the phrase "onramp to the Information Highway" in advertising OS/2. Students with Ethernet access will be disappointed with the most recent version of OS/2 Warp; it only includes support for connecting to networks over the modem, and there is no support for Ethernet connections...
Fred Levinson, the owner of A Trip by Modem, anagency in which 25 percent of the business comesin through the Internet, said "[The cap] won'thave an effect on students who are customers ofours...
...concierge's desk'' in the lobby to pick up laptop computers and portable phones, which can be programmed with any employee's extension. The workers then head for any one of a dozen or so living room-like settings in a large, red-carpeted open area, plug into nearby modem jacks and get cracking. For the occasional meetings of working groups, several ``strategic business units'' (conference rooms) have been set aside, but they are practically the only enclosed spaces...